Multivitamins do nothing to protect men against heart attack,
stroke, or cardiovascular-related death. That's the message
headlines blared in early November, citing results of a new
study of nearly 15,000 male doctors published in the Journal of
the American Medical Association.  As part of the Physicians'
Health Study II, researchers gave half of the men a daily
multivitamin and the other half a placebo and then tracked their
health for more than a decade. As it turned out, the
multivitamin takers were just as likely to have heart troubles
as those who did not pop a pill every day.  But don't dump your
bottle just yet. According to the Council for Responsible
Nutrition (CRN), the men in this study were in better shape to
begin with than the general population. They had healthy diets,
low body mass indexes, low smoking rates, and engaged in regular
exercise – plus, they took a baby aspirin each day, which could
explain why a multivitamin didn't offer additional
cardiovascular support. "The fact that the parti