Little Miss Muffett and the Multivitamin
Featured: Featured Why growing kids need more than curds and whey By Cara Lucas French fries. Ketchup. The dreaded chicken finger. They are all staples for most young diets these days. But, hey, even...
View ArticleHealth News: Multivitamins: “The cheapest health insurance a person will ever...
Featured: Unfeatured JAMA reported that a daily multivitamin may reduce the risk of cancer by at least eight percent. While that may seem like an insignificant amount, it isn’t, according to Professor...
View ArticleDemystifying the Multivitamin
Featured: Featured A look at the forms and formulations By Cara Lucas In the often-confusing world of natural supplementation—where, to some, getting the perfect health-boosting elixir is a downright...
View ArticleFocus On: Vitamin C
Featured: Unfeatured What it is, why we need it, and where to find it What it is:Vitamin C is a water-soluble nutrient that our body needs to function properly. The body does not make this vitamin, so...
View ArticleLet’s Talk Spinach
Featured: Unfeatured Popeye’s secret weapon, working for your body By Amy Vergin Anyone who has grown up with the cartoon Popeye has an image seared into their brain of Popeye defending Olive Oyl’s...
View ArticleTired Much?
Featured: Unfeatured The natural response to fatigue is to plop yourself down on that leather couch and zone out. That’s all well and good once in a while (we all need our downtime) but if you’re...
View ArticleFocus On: Vitamin A
Featured: Unfeatured WHAT IT IS: Vitamin A is a group of fat-soluble retinoids. (It is known as a retinoid because vitamin A is what produces the pigments in the retina of the eye.) There are two...
View ArticleProduce Over Prozac
Featured: Unfeatured Feeling blue? You may not be getting the vitamin and mineral support you need.read more
View ArticleFocus On: Vitamin D
Featured: Unfeatured WHAT IT IS: A steroid vitamin, vitamin D is a group of fat-soluble pro-hormones that is important for absorbing and metabolizing calcium and phosphorus. Actually “vitamins” cannot...
View ArticleMultivitamins Under Fire
Featured: Unfeatured Why multis still matter By Dick Benson The Annals of Internal Medicine recently published an editorial that encourages consumers to avoid taking vitamin and mineral supplements....
View ArticleMuddling the Multivitamin Message
Featured: Featured By David Katz, MD A recent issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine featured three studies about multivitamin/mineral supplements. An accompanying editorial was entitled “Enough Is...
View ArticleWhat Vitamin Supplements Do and How to Pick One
Featured: Featured By Adam Swenson Here’s another perspective on the pieces run in the New York Times and the Annals of Internal Medicine. There are many systemic flaws with the studies referenced in...
View ArticleFocus On: Prenatal Vitamins
Featured: Unfeatured WHAT IT IS: Prenatal vitamins are intended to make up for any nutritional deficiencies that may be present in women who are either pregnant or trying to conceive. These should not...
View ArticleAre You Taking the Right Supplements?
Featured: Featured Discover what you need and what you don’t By Michael A. Smith, MD By far the most common questions I am asked have to do with what nutritional supplements to take and, equally...
View ArticleFocus On: Multivitamins
Featured: Unfeatured WHAT IT IS: Vitamins are organic compounds that our bodies need to function normally. Many Americans don’t get all the requisite vitamins and minerals from our diet—multivitamins...
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