Vitamin Information Center

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) encompasses a group of diverse health or healing systems, practices, theories and beliefs, and products that is beyond conventional medicine. Continue Reading…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bone tests aren’t just for women anymore. New guidelines are calling for older men to get a routine check for bone-thinning osteoporosis. Continue Reading…

Claudette Novak

The most natural source of vitamin D is the sun. It has always been referred to as the “sunshine vitamin.” This is because the body has special cells underneath the surface of the skin that produce vitamin D when activated by ultraviolet light.
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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…

Unless you are lucky enough to live in a location that enjoys year-round sunshine and mild temperatures, you are likely to experience a drop in your Vitamin D levels during the winter. Getting direct sun on your skin is one of the chief ways in which you get vitamin D. With the colder weather, we spend less time outdoors and when we are outdoors, we try to cover as much skin as possible.
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Taking medicine is often a gamble. You are betting that the benefits will outweigh the risks. But do you realize a payoff is far from certain?

Drug companies rarely have to prove that their pills actually produce the desired outcome. All they have to show is that the medication moves the needle on some gauge or lab test. Continue Reading…

The hardest part of buying electronics isn’t getting them to work - which is difficult enough. The real challenge is getting them out of the package.

Every gadget comes sealed in 10 pounds of indestructible plastic. It encases everything from iPods to phone cards to individually wrapped screws. It’s just part of our new plastic-wrapped world.

Nano-sized music players come in boxes the size of TVs, while TVs come in boxes the size of pianos, and God knows what pianos come in.

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