Your doctor may also advise you to take antioxidant vitamins and zinc.

Try cold water or fruit juices with antioxidant vitamins.

Another study, of women with heart disease, found that antioxidant vitamins might actually increase the rate of atherosclerosis.

Dietary antioxidant vitamins and death from coronary heart disease in postmenopausal women.

About a year ago, the purported link between antioxidant vitamins and cancers was questioned.

A randomized trial of antioxidant vitamins to prevent second primary cancers in head and neck cancer patients.

In animal experiments, antioxidant vitamins have been found to reduce hearing loss even when administered the day after noise exposure.

However, a separate study found antioxidant vitamins - widely touted as good for general health - offer no such protective effect against Alzheimer's.

People who eat food high in antioxidant vitamins and minerals have been shown to have a lower incidence of cancer.

Antioxidant vitamins and coronary heart disease risk: a pooled analysis of 9 cohorts.