Almost one-third of US children regularly take dietary supplements
Dietary Supplement :: Almost one-third of US children regularly take dietary supplements More than 30 percent of American children age 18 and younger take some form of dietary supplement, most often multivitamins and multiminerals, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Most [...]
Eat a balanced, healthy diet – vitamins
Diet :: Eat a balanced, healthy diet – vitamins On the surface, it makes all the sense in the world: Since fruits, vegetables, and fish contain loads of healthy nutrients, why not isolate those vitamins, put them in pills, and gobble them up? And wouldn’t more be better? Then we could just skip the strawberries, [...]
Vitamin D, calcium ok for crohn’s-related bone loss
Crohn’s disease :: Vitamin D, calcium ok for crohn’s-related bone loss Adding etidronate to calcium and vitamin D therapy is not necessary in the treatment of bone loss in patients with Crohn’s disease, results of a new study indicate. “The addition of the bone-building drug etidronate adds no additional advantage,” Dr. Richard N. Fedorak told. [...]
Vitamin B niacin boosts HDL cholesterol good cholesterol
Cholesterol :: Vitamin B niacin boosts HDL cholesterol good cholesterol New discoveries offer promise for developing drugs that improve on the therapeutic profile of niacin, the inexpensive, time-tested B-vitamin that boosts levels of HDL cholesterol ? the ?good? cholesterol with the potential to protect people against heart attacks and stroke, scientists reported today. Graeme Semple, [...]
Fish oil slows the deterioration caused by Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s Disease :: Fish oil slows the deterioration caused by Alzheimer’s disease A Saint Louis University physician-scientist and author of a new book on how herbs, supplements, foods, vitamins and medications affect the body is researching whether an omega-3 fatty acid found in certain fish slows the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. “We have long considered [...]
