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Emboldened Warriors-Cancer Fighting Foods

...oducts — including lycopene, milk thistle extract, vitamin E and selenium — that also have shown promise against prostate cancer, says Rajesh Agarwal, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. Drinking cloudy apple juice ...

Schoolgirls Spark Court Cases Against Drug Giant

...ready-to-drink Ribena contained minimal amounts of vitamin C, contrary to claims in its television commercial... that each 100ml of Ribena contained about 22mg of vitamin C. The company had promoted the product by claiming that black currants had four times the vitamin C...

Drug Helps Prevent Hip Fractures in Parkinson Disease

...alf of the group received the drug risedronate and vitamin D2. The remaining men received placebo and vitamin D2. The study found the men taking risedronate were three times less likely to sustain a hip frac...

Child Struck With Mystery Illness Shows Signs of Recovering

...imple- the boy is suffering from a deficiency of a vitamin that protects his nervous system. The vitamin in question is the amino acid l-serine. Since taking three amino acid l-serine tablets a day, Timo...

Garlic Plus Vitamin C may Reduce Blood Pressure

A combination of garlic supplements and vitamin C reduced blood pressure back to normal levels in ...ays a pilot study.// "Combinations of garlic and vitamin C are an effective alternative in the control of marginally high blood pressure," wrote authors Adam...

Researchers Study Health of New Zealand's Indian Community

.... "There has been a lot of research interest in vitamin D and its role in a number of diseases. One of the...s of this study is to investigate the influence of vitamin D deficiency in type-two diabetes and to test the effectiveness of vitamin supplements," Pamela adde...

Cells in Good Cheer With Vitamin C

...require Vitamin C to kick start; low levels of the vitamin means that enzymes may not be able to do their wor... Dr Vissers said, "This also means that a lack of vitamin C increases tumor growth and prevents effective treatment. It follows that restoring vitamin C to no...

Vitamin C Could Help in Curbing Cancer

New Zealand researchers claimed Friday that vitamin C was vital for good health and could even help be...oratory experiments showed for the first time that vitamin C was a vital part of healthy living and not just a health supplement to be taken when people had a ...

Success of Hip Replacement Surgery Decided by Genes

...ible for generating matrix metalloproteinase 1 and vitamin D synthesis may determine the success// of long te...roteinase 1, or MMP1 for short, interleukin 6, and vitamin D synthesis. MMP1 is an enzyme that breaks down collagen, the main protein found in bone and carti...

Rare Brain Condition Linked to Obesity Surgery

...ate movement. It is said to be caused by a lack of vitamin B1 or thiamine, and is accentuated by repeated vom...rgone weight loss surgery to take their prescribed vitamin supplements and be alert for symptoms such as vomiting, confusion, visual changes and lack of co-ord...

Want a Healthy Colon? Eat a Rainbow!

...d milk, and eggs. o Vitamin D may be obtained via vitamin D3 supplements; many calcium supplements also contain Vitamin D3. Folic Acid o Folic acid (folate) is an essential B vitamin, and may reduce your risk of colorectal cancer. o It’s easy to incorporate folic acid into your diet. Try adding lentils,...

Sunshine Protects Fetus From Developing Diabetes

...dy by Dr Chantal Mathieu, found that low levels of vitamin D could be linked to the development of autoimmune disorders Hence the vitamin D that the body gets from sunlight could actually help to cut the risk of the unborn child from deve...

Scientists Genetically Engineer Tomatoes With Enhanced Folate Content

...'t the only foods that pack a punch of folate, the vitamin essential for a healthy// start to pregnancy. Re...he folate content of fruits and vegetables." The vitamin is commonly found in leafy green vegetables like spinach, but few people eat enough produce to get t...

Nigerian Programme Increases Polio Immunisation

... and provides supplemental health benefits such as vitamin A, de-worming tablets and vaccinations for measles, DPT (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) as well as oral polio vaccine (OPV). "The IPDs have really increased acceptance of immunisation," said Mustapha Mahmud, North-Central Zonal Coordinator for ...

Leukemia Drug Turns Mini-Molecules Up, Cancer Genes Down

New research shows that a form of vitamin A used to treat acute promyelocytic leukemia induces changes in an unusual class of small molecules called microRNAs (miRNAs) in the// leukemic cells. The study also shows that three of these miRNAs inhibit the action of two genes important for ca...

Controversies Involving Health Foods

...iation. According to this finding consumption of vitamin pills for a prolonged period may actually increase the mortality rate by 5% and low fat dairy may hamper the chances of conceiving in women. The researchers from Copenhagen University Hospital conducted this exhaustive study on 200,000 people before ...

Vitamin D Deficiency Widespread During Pregnancy

...ultivitamin supplements is not adequate to prevent vitamin D insufficiency, according to a report in the curr...nd other musculoskeletal and health complications, vitamin D insufficiency was found to be widespread among women during pregnancy, particularly in the norther...

Natural Milk Protein Could Lead to Super Nutritious Foods

...g nutrients from mother to baby. They encapsulated vitamin D (which plays a major role in calcium absorption ...not contain micelles by using soluble casein. When vitamin D was added to the solution, it bound to the casein. And when calcium and phosphate – in the amounts...

Unique Tomatoes Tops In Disease-Fighting Antioxidants

...tz said. “And this carotenoid is a major source of vitamin A for a large proportion of the world's population. Its deficiency is a serious health problem in many developing countries. “Our study showed that a tomato can also increase beta carotene levels in the blood,” Schwartz said. While these special tom...

Think Twice Before Loading on Vitamins, Say Experts

...can Medical Association, have revealed that taking vitamin supplements like those of A and E as well as ot...percent increased risk of mortality. In addition, vitamin A and vitamin E were associated with 16 and 4 percent respectively, increased risk of mortality. ...

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