Vitamins, keys of the healthy life
11 Mar, 2008 No Comments
Taking a range of supplements from vitamin A to zinc is becoming part of everyday life. But as the latest study is published questioning their efficacy, people could be left wondering do they work? Continue Reading…
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7 Mar, 2008 4 Comments
EXETER, England, Feb. 22 — Children with Down’s syndrome did not improve their Action Points
Explain to interested patients that early vitamin supplementation for children with Down’s syndrome may not improve development.
Note that antioxidant supplements and folinic acid cannot be recommended for children with Down’s syndrome based on the available evidence.
development with the use of antioxidant vitamins, researchers here found.
Psychomotor and language development scores were no better among British children with Down’s given antioxidants or folinic acid (an active metabolite of folic acid) or both than among those who received neither, reported Stuart Logan, MBChB, of Peninsula Medical School, and colleagues online in BMJ.
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Six-year vitamin E supplementation increased tuberculosis risk by 72% in male smokers who had high dietary vitamin C intake, but vitamin E had no effect on those who had low dietary vitamin C intake, according to a study published in the British Journal of Nutrition.
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7 Mar, 2008 No Comments
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…
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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…
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Making your own healthy dog food is one of the best things you can do for your dog. Especially today more than ever. What with the dog food recalls that has been going on and not to mention the poor dogs that have died as a result from badly made commercial dog food!
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