By Associated Press “Patient after patient asked: Is eating organic food, which costs more, really better for me? Unsure, Stanford University doctors dug through reams of research to find out — and concluded there’s little evidence that going organic is much healthier, citing only a few differences involving pesticides and antibiotics.
By Debra Witt “There’s a reason many supermarkets and drug stores devote an entire aisle to nutritional supplements. For those of us on a quest for better health, it’s hard to resist the promise that it can be delivered in the form of neatly packaged pills. One in three American adults takes at least one […]
Written By Carina Storrs  “Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy could hinder babies’ brain development, impeding their mental and motor skills, a new study suggests.
Written by Carolyn Dean “Over the past decade I’ve done hundreds of interviews and articles on the dozens of benefits of magnesium. In fact, magnesium can do so much that it makes people skeptical that one simple mineral can be crucial for so many activities in the body. After all, magnesium is necessary in over 325 […]
Vitamin deficiencies are ‘widespread’ in the developed world, according to a new traffic light analysis of vitamin intakes by DSM.
Written by Rod Cedaro “Without a shadow of a doubt, every endurance athlete I’ve ever dealt with has had some sort of quirky eating habit. Some have been pretty harmless (a compulsion to eat chocolate every night before going to bed), while others have been somewhat more serious, involving nutritional problems (e.g. eating a large […]
“Vitamins are substances in food that are ‘vital to life’ and are involved in numerous body functions. There are 13 known vitamins needed to support sound nutritional health. Keep in mind that all vitamins are different from each other and one vitamin cannot substitute for another.
“People are always curious about what metabolism really does and how it works in your body. Basically, metabolism is a complex network of hormones and enzymes that convert food into fuel and determine how efficiently that fuel is used. Metabolism is also affected by gender (men usually burn more calories than women) and proportion of […]
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