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HELP OR HARM?

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Not only are supplements of little value but they can also be downright dangerous. This was the pronouncement of a Harvard professor who is cautioning our unquestioning embrace of a practice he believes might be doing us more harm than good.

In October 2016, a review in the — widely acknowledged as the best medical journal in the scientific universe — anchored by Dr Pieter A Cohen, Professor of Medicine at Harvard and winner of a number of best teacher awards, blacklisted a whole slew of supplements, including echinacea,

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