Diet patterns may keep brain from shrinking
30 DEC 2011 ST. PAUL, Minn. – People with diets high in several vitamins or in omega 3 fatty acids are less likely to have the brain shrinkage associated with…
Women do not get enough vitamin D during the menopause
Public release date: 20-Oct-2011 A healthy diet is especially important during the menopause – a period in which the risk of suffering from health problems increases. Various studies analyse the…
Vitamin A supplements for children could save 600,000 lives a year / reduced child mortality by 24%
Public release date: 25-Aug-2011 Children in low and middle income countries should be given vitamin A supplements to prevent death and illness, concludes a study published on bmj.com today. The…
Sun protects against childhood asthma
Public release date: 18-May-2011 Vitamin D, which is primarily absorbed from the sun, plays a role in protection against childhood asthma. Now, a new study led by Valencian researchers has…
California scientists discover how vitamins and minerals may prevent age-related diseases
“This paper should settle any debate about the importance of taking a good, complete, multivitamin every day,” said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of the FASEB Journal. “As this report shows,…
U of I study: Before you start bone-building meds, try dietary calcium and supplements
- “Bisphosphonates, for instance, disrupt normal bone remodeling by shutting down the osteoclasts— the cells that break down old bone to make new bone. When that happens, new bone is…
Vitamin D deficiency in pneumonia patients associated with increased mortality
Public release date: 10-May-2011 A new study published in the journal Respirology reveals that adult patients admitted to the hospital with pneumonia are more likely to die if they have…
High levels of vitamin D appear to lower risk of age-related macular degeneration in young women
Public release date: 11-Apr-2011 High levels of vitamin D in the bloodstream appear to be associated with a decreased risk of developing early age-related macular degeneration among women younger than…
Study links vitamin D to lung cancer survival
Public release date: 1-Mar-2011 U-M researchers find high levels of enzyme that blocks vitamin D can predict lung cancer survival ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Recent research suggests vitamin D may…
Vitamin E may increase the life expectancy of restricted groups of men
Public release date: 20-Jan-2011 - The researchers concluded that “if vitamin E influences the life-span, it is possible that a benefit on the oldest participants might be camouflaged by the…
New findings show vitamin D accelerates recovery from TB
Public release date: 5-Jan-2011 - 122/126 patients in the trial (97per cent), had inadequate levels of vitamin D at baseline. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350"] The time-course of an immune response…
Vitamin supplements reduce deaths caused by measles and diarrhea
Public release date: 7-Dec-2010 - Overall, giving vitamin A capsules reduced the risk of death from any cause by 24% compared to placebos or usual treatment - Giving vitamin A…
See off Alzheimer’s with the color purple
Public release date: 8-Dec-2010 - found that the majority of debilitating illnesses are in part caused by poorly-bound iron which causes the production of dangerous toxins that can react with…
Vitamin A may help boost immune system to fight tuberculosis ( all-trans reinoic acid )
- only vitamin A decreased the cells' cholesterol levels - Vitamin A induces the cell to express NPC2, which helps the cell effectively remove cholesterol from the lysosomes so the…
Vitamin B12 may reduce risk of Alzheimer’s disease
Public release date: 18-Oct-2010 - Low levels of vitamin B12 are surprisingly common in the elderly [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350"] Metabolism of folic acid. The role of Vitamin B 12…
Burn injuries rapidly deplete vitamin E
Public release date: 20-Oct-2010 - found they lost almost half of their stored vitamin E in three weeks, even though they were being given about 150 percent of the recommended…
Vitamin C rapidly improves emotional state of acutely hospitalized patients, say LDI researchers
Public release date: 23-Sep-2010 - Patients administered vitamin C had a rapid and statistically and clinically significant improvement in mood state - "About one in five acute-care patients in our…
Vitamin C may help prevent Hemorrhagic stroke
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMKDotOCeho] Highlights: - Hemorrhagic stroke is less common than ischemic stroke, but is more often deadly -On average, the people who had a stroke had depleted levels of vitamin…
CBS This Morning – “Says Supplements no good for the Heart” Silly Silly CBS
Quick rebuttal to the inaccurate statement that nutritional supplements are an ineffective tool against heart disease. The CBS Doctor Tara Narula reading from a scripted source ... Made the inaccurate statement…
More than half the world’s population gets insufficient vitamin D, says UCR biochemist
Public release date: 15-Jul-2010 - “There is a wide consensus among scientists that the relative daily intake of vitamin D should be increased to 2,000 to 4,000 IU for most…
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