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Dietary Supplements and Vitamins
, Studies
, Weight Loss
on June 13, 2010
According to a new Japanese study, daily supplements of Lactobacillus gasseri SBT2055 (LG2055) may help weight loss in people with obese tendencies.
Findings published in the European Journal of Cl...
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Allergies
, Dietary Supplements and Vitamins
, Lung Conditions
on April 30, 2009
According to a Costa Rican study, children with Vitamin D deficiency could be at a higher risk of developing asthma.
Vitamin D levels were also associated with increased frequency of hospitalization,...
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Dietary Supplements and Vitamins
on February 25, 2009
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For many decades we have looked at Vitamin C as our protection for cold and flu. A new study is saying that it may be Vitamin D that do could that.
Accor...
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Cancer
, Cardiovascular Health
, Dietary Supplements and Vitamins
, Studies
, Women's Health
on February 11, 2009
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According to a Women's Health Initiative study, multivitamins have little or no influence in a woman's risk of cardiovascular diseases or cancer.
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Dietary Supplements and Vitamins
, Mental Maladies
, Women's Health
on February 7, 2009
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High intake of omega-3 fatty acids have been found to decrease the occasion of depressive symptoms in women by about 30%.
According to researchers from F...
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Alzheimer's Disease
, Dietary Supplements and Vitamins
, Studies
on January 23, 2009
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Low Vitamin D levels in the elderly could be linked to cognitive impairment. Such were the findings of a new large scale senior population study.
The stu...
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Dietary Supplements and Vitamins
, Pregnancy & Child Birth
, Women's Health
on January 8, 2009
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There is a a new product created to help expectant and new moms get the Omega-3s they need without the fishy aftertaste that makes fish oil hard to swallo...
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Alzheimer's Disease
, Dietary Supplements and Vitamins
on November 18, 2008
If you are one of the older member of the population who keeps taking the herbal supplement ginkgo biloba...you may want to throw it away, as the largest and longest study on it didn't show benefi...
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Dietary Supplements and Vitamins
on November 17, 2008
When Oprah endorses a product, the world rushes out to buy it. But what happens when those people don't know where to find it?
Recently, the Açaí berry has become all the rage with celebrities an...
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Dietary Supplements and Vitamins
, Parkinson's Disease
on October 14, 2008
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The intriguing results of a study from Emory University School of Medicine suggested that Parkinson's disease patients are more likely to be Vitamin D def...
