Does Taking Vitamins Actually Benefit Our Health?

I take a multi vitamin every day along with a separate C & E vitamin, and come to find out, I do it for no reason! Supposedly and according to research, supplement vitamins C & E don't do anything to prevent cancer or heart disease. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27752936/

I know it's unfortunate for everyone who thought they were doing their body good, but experiments oppose it. Howard Sesso of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston performed an 8 year long experiment; a group of doctors took vitamin C and E supplements whereas the other group just took placebos, the results were as expected. The doctors that took the supplement had no more or less of a risk for getting cancer or heart disease as the doctors who took the placebo. It sounds crazy but its true, other tests were performed to prove that getting these vitamins for a healthy and balanced diet, did decrease the risk of getting cancer and heart disease.

Although I found this article really interesting, I think I'm going to continue taking my multi vitamins. I know they're proved to not affect the risk of cancer, but they don't cause any harm to the body either. Unless you don't take an excess of vitamins, I still personally feel they do more good for our health than bad.