Archive for the Nutrition Category
What's in your daily vitamin? You may be surprised, according to a new report.
• Harmful vitamins?
Jan. 19: Tod Cooperman of Consumerlab.com talks with TODAY host Matt Lauer about his company's report, which finds that some vitamins may actually be hazardous to your health.
If you're banking on a daily vitamin to make up for any deficiencies in your diet, you may be getting a whole lot more — or less — than you bargained for.
Of 21 bran.. Read More
Nutrition | 01.19.07
In my book, Statin Drugs Side Effects and the misguided war on cholesterol, and on this website I have discussed the vital role of cholesterol in the human body. Our most important hormones depend upon adequate reserves of cholesterol for their production and nowhere is this more important than as the precursor substance for the synthesis of Vitamin D, know also as calcitrol.
Researchers in this field are sufficiently concerned from the results o.. Read More
Nutrition | 01.13.07
By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer
Tue Dec 19, 8:48 PM ET
CHICAGO - An abundance of vitamin D seems to help prevent multiple sclerosis, according to a study in more than 7 million people that offers some of the strongest evidence yet of the power of the "sunshine vitamin" against MS.
The research found that white members of the U.S. military with the highest blood levels of vitamin D were 62 percent less likely to develop multiple sclerosis tha.. Read More
Nutrition | 12.22.06
I just read an article about a study that compared the health of Americans with those of Britons of the same age and ethnicity ie caucasian, of course the Americans won hands down in ill health. The article wondered why with all the money that we spend on health care over here, we are more unhealthy. They were saying that maybe we spend less on preventive health care etc. As a physician that has practiced medicine on two continents and being marr.. Read More
Nutrition | 05.28.06
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently held a State of the Science Conference on Multivitamin/Mineral (MVM) Supplements and Chronic Disease Prevention. As many of you are aware, the committee's position statement has received some attention in the media and has been subject to confusing and mixed interpretation. Shaklee would like to take this opportunity to clarify the conference findings and share with you the basic tenets of MVM use .. Read More
Nutrition | 05.27.06
New study supports the benefits of Vitamin E
A study published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association's July 6, 2005 edition confirms not only the safety of vitamin E, but also specific heart health benefits for women.
This study, called the Women's Health Study (WHS), is particularly significant since it is the largest and longest single study involving vitamin E ever conducted, involving 40,000 women over a 10-year per.. Read More
Nutrition | 05.7.06
The Disappearing Nutrients in America's Orchards
By Alex Jack
"Will an apple a day with 40% less vitamin A, 40% less iron, and 30% less phosphorus still keep the doctor away?"
Fruit Basket Upset: The Disappearing Nutrients in America's Orchards
To get the same calcium content from fresh veggies today as when JFK was president, you'd have to eat twice as much broccoli. To get the same amount of iron as when the Beatles were singing "We All Live in.. Read More
Nutrition | 04.5.06
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