Vitamin Information Center

I love greens for so many reasons, but mainly because they TASTE GREAT!!! In salad, sautéed in olive oil with a bit of garlic or stir fry in a festive mix, greens are my favorite food. However I know that many of you will only be coaxed into trying greens with a list of all of the great nutritional properties of these most wonderful vegetables, so here goes. Continue Reading…

Sugar. What is it Good For? Absolutely… Nothing? I wouldn’t go that far.

It’s been a great contributor to some of the most debilitating diseases known to man. Diabetes, heart disorders of all types, adrenal disorders, allergy, endocrine disturbances, obesity, and brain chemistry disturbances. Continue Reading…

Water as Replenishment Equals Pain Reduction Water has several roles and responsibilities in the body. The concept of maintaining hydration is important because of these functions: Movement of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, glucose, hormones, and enzymes through the body. Continue Reading…

Will adding calcium carbonate improve my diet? An increasing number of health care professionals don’t see the need for supplements of vitamins and minerals, but it is possible to become deficient in these building blocks for the human body when we are under the stress of illness, pregnancy or aging. Children can often eat junk foods to fill their bellies and miss out on their once daily nutritional requirements. The unborn child makes heavy nutritional demands on the mother, while those in the older age bracket often observe that their stomach doesn’t soak up nutrients like it should. Continue Reading…

Vitamin D is often called the “sunshine” vitamin. It’s been in the news lately because many researchers are concerned about the adequacy and protective factors of the current recommended intake.

First, what is Vitamin D? It’s one of the fat soluble vitamins (the others are A, E and K) found in food or made by the body after exposure to UV rays from the sun. It exists in several forms, each with a different level of activity. The most active form of vitamin D is Calciferol. The liver and kidneys help convert Vitamin D to its active hormone form. So this is how it works:
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f you’re a young women, take a vitamin supplement with folic acid.

Public health experts have been saying this for years, because folic acid - a synthetic form of the B vitamin folate found in leafy green veggies - can reduce the risk of brain and spinal cord birth defects by up to 70 percent.

Alas, only 12 percent of women ages 18 to 45 have heard about the benefits of folic acid, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among Hispanic women, awareness is even less, which the CDC says is why their children are 1.5 times to three times more likely to have a “neural tube” birth defect such as spina bifida than children of non-Hispanic white women. Continue Reading…

A study has claimed that “cancer patients who use vitamin and mineral supplements could risk them interfering with treatment or even making the disease worse”, the Daily Mail reported . The newspaper says there is a lack of evidence about the usefulness of supplements and that people with cancer are unaware of side effects.
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Are vitamin pills good for you or not? Forty years ago, I was taught in medical school that they were useless, because you got all the vitamins you needed in a typical diet. What my teachers meant was that you got enough of the vitamins in your diet to prevent well-recognized vitamin-deficiency diseases. For example, you got more than enough vitamin C in your diet to prevent the disease called scurvy. Continue Reading…

JACKSON COUNTY — We’re finally starting to see more of the sun again, and it’s important to bask in its rays, even in the winter. That’s because the light provides much needed Vitamin D.
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Caution: You should seek advice from your physician before beginning the lemonade cleanse if you have any health conditions. The following is not medical advice.

Should you attempt the popular lemonade cleanse? Consider these facts from health experts.

According to health and wellness professionals, a unhealthy life is one that lacks exercise and a healthy diet. Toxins form in the body which turn into congestion and then disease. To cure the sickness a person must remove the bad habits and replace them with healthy habits and use techniques to help eliminate the toxins from the body. The corrective techniques recommended by Stanley Burroughs, the Author of the Master Cleanser, is the Lemonade Cleanse diet.
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