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Rickets making comeback among breastfed infants, especially blacks, N.C. doctors find
...skinned breastfed infants should receive vitamin D supplements
beginning in early infancy. Calikoglu grew up and trained in Turkey, where he saw and treated many nutritional rickets cases. Schwartz has been instrumental in persuading the state's WIC program to pay for free vitamins for all breastfed infants....
Women with low body iron find exercise harder
...eficient women who boost their body iron by taking supplements
can improve their exercise endurance twice as much as iron-depleted women. "Millions of women are working harder than they need in order to exercise or physically work, and they can't reap the benefits of endurance training as easily. As a result, e...
Vitamin E from dietary supplements may help reduce
cognitive decline among older persons
...high intake of vitamin E from foods and/or dietary supplements
was associated with reduced memory loss and other cognitive decline. Martha Clare Morris, ScD, principal author of the study and assistant professor in the department of internal medicine at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, will ...
Amino acid supplements improve dialysis patients' health
June 22, 2000 -- Amino acid supplements
may provide a cost-effective and safe method for i...ing inflammation and related medical problems. Yet supplements
of amino acids fundamental components of all proteins bypass these problems and are a good way to in...
Honey : Natures's sweetener may increase recuperation after workouts
...al sweetener may be an ideal complement to protein supplements
A research study presented today at the annu...r blood sugar maintenance after exercise. Protein supplements
are widely used to increase one's intake of dietary protein. Protein need increases among individual...
Folic acid supplements and fortified breakfast cereals can reduce homocysteine levels and ischemic heart disease risk
...folate-rich foods. They found that the cereal and supplements
provided the best means of lowering plasma tHcy, w...ic-acid-fortified breakfast cereals, or folic acid supplements
appear to be the two most effective means of reducing tHcy concentrations....
Lutein supplements may improve vision
...a study of thesupplement. The subjects took lutein supplements
with breakfast every day for six months, 40 mg/day...ion, those who took vitamin A and/or beta carotene supplements
prior to thestudy seemed to benefit more than those who did not. The long-term effects of lutein su...
New UF study shows value of folate for older women
...ers and rice. While fortified foods and folic acid supplements
are recommended for women of reproductive age, Bailey advises women of all ages to include foods naturally high in folate in their diet. "Foods naturally containing folate also provide many other nutrients women need, playing a crucial role in a heal...
Discussion May 24 on recommendations for animal studies on DNA-based therapies, herbs, emissions from cellular phones
...esting of two substances sometimes used in dietary supplements
and of a chemical, potassium ferricyanide, used in photo processing. The dietary ingredients proposed for testing are chitosan, a natural product derived from marine organisms and sometimes used to promote weight loss, and the chemical juglone, whic...
Study finds elderly women can halt bone loss
...rovide a natural alternative to estrogen and other supplements
for women seeking to prevent bone loss after menopause, said Christine Snow, director of the Bone Research Laboratory at OSU and principal investigator in the study. The exercise program developed by Snow already was shown to be effective in helpi...
Vitamin D deficiency and bowel diseases connected
...hen either maintained deficient or given vitamin D supplements
in their food to bring them up to the normal level...d. In addition, the mice that did not receive the supplements
began to die at seven weeks of age and by nine weeks more than half were dead. In contrast none of ...
UCSF researchers find link between vitamin C and gallbladder disease
...researchers observed that women who used vitamin C supplements
had a lower prevalence of clinical gallbladder disease. The study appears in the latest issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. "Although a few previous studies have shown a relationship between vitamin C and gallbladder diseas...
New antioxidant vitamin RDAs better, but not good enough
...ing Institute recommends a combination of diet and supplements
that will provide about 200 milligrams a day of vi.... The reduction of heart attack risk by vitamin E supplements
is likely due to the ability of vitamin E to interfere with platelet aggregation and prevent blood c...
Analytical chemists earn national recognition for metals research
...de Leon reported that an analysis of selenium food supplements
showed wide variation among tablets, even within t...Kathy Ackley who contributed to the study. Those supplements
typically are prepared by growing yeast enriched in selenium. Ponce de Leon is now working with UC ...
UF researcher unlocks secrets of popular supplement creatine
...nia and defended in December, Powers gave creatine supplements
to 16 subjects and placebo supplements
to another 16. During a five-week period, Powers took muscle samples and readings of cellular water ...
Taking vitamin supplements is a common behavior in the U.S.
...sing or underdosing and recommend that all dietary supplements
clearly list ingredients and known contraindicatio... billion are spent annually on vitamin and mineral supplements
in the United States, making these the third largest over-the-counter drug category used....
Carotenes and vitamin E protect against sun damage to the skin
...significantly reduced in subjects who took vitamin supplements
over a 12 week period while being exposed to UV radiation. All of the 22 volunteers for the study were healthy, fair-skinned nonsmokers who were divided into two groups: one received 25 mg. mixed carotenes daily, and the other 25 mg mixed carotenes ...
New study shows immune-enhancing therapy reduces infections and shortens hospital stay by almost three days in critically ill
...rauma, sepsis or major surgery, tube-fed (enteral) supplements
specially designed to boost the immune system (immune-enhancing therapy) significantly reduce infection rates and shorten the length of hospitalization by almost three days. These are results of a new study published in the December issue of Critica...
Creatine may improve performance during short bursts of activity
...bjects took the creatine supplements
and placebos before and after morning and afternoon practices. The researchers assessed each swimmer twice a week during the study -- once during a series of six 50-meter ...
Study: avoiding vitamins A, E might improve cancer therapy
...pulations to address the real value of antioxidant supplements
orantioxidant depletion in people at risk of developing cancer." Salganik said he hoped clinical studies would begin within a year or two. Van Dyke is a member ofthe UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center....
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