Vitamins

Multivitamins During Pregnancy Help Avoid Underweight Babies
by eNotAlone.com
Future moms-to-be who take multivitamins during pregnancy, significantly lower the risk of delivering an underweight baby, researchers from Canada have reported this week. One of the biggest risks to newborn babies is to be born too early

High Vitamin D Levels Contribute To Weight Loss
by eNotAlone.com
Vitamin D appears to play a potential role when it comes to losing weight, possibly through the effects of metabolism, claims a new study by scientists at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Multivitamins Can Slow Aging Process In Women
by eNotAlone.com
According to a new evidence by U.S. scientists, taking multivitamins may help women live a longer life by preventing parts of their DNA from shortening. Telomeres, or the end portion of chromosomes, protect chromosomes from damage.

Antioxidant Vitamins Reduce The Effect Of Workout
by eNotAlone.com
Taking antioxidant vitamins C and E may reduce some of the most important beneficial effects of exercise, says a new study by German scientists, who found that taking these vitamins after a workout appears to prevent physical exercise from improving

Herbs Not Be Used Before Plastic Surgery
by eNotAlone.com
Plastic Surgery patients should not be taking any herbal dietary supplements prior to the undergoing surgery as they can have negative effects when combined with the operation, warns a report published in the latest issue of Aesthetic Surgery Journal.

Lack Of Vitamin D Leads To Teen Diabetes And Heart Problems
by eNotAlone.com
Lower levels of vitamin D in teenagers are associated with a greater risk of high blood pressure, heart disease and high blood sugar, reports a new U.S. study. The sunshine vitamin is needed for the development and maintenance of strong bones

Vitamin B12 And Folic Acid Important For Healthy Baby
by eNotAlone.com
Women who do not have adequate levels of vitamin B 12 in their blood before and after getting pregnant, are at a significantly increased risk of giving birth to a child with brain or spinal cord defects, a new study by Irish researchers claims.

Too Much Of Vitamin E Dangerous During Pregnancy
by eNotAlone.com
High levels of vitamin E at an early stage of pregnancy pose greater risk for developing heart defect in infants, according to Dutch scientists. In a new study, the researchers from Rotterdam examined 600 mothers - 276 women whose babies were born

Iodine Lack In Prenatal Vitamins
by eNotAlone.com
Most prenatal multivitamins marketed in the United States, do not contain all the iodine they state on the label, potentially posing infants at risk of poor brain development, researchers reported earlier this week.

Calcium Reduces Risk Of Breast And Colorectal Cancer
by eNotAlone.com
Calcium is not only vital for maintaining strong bones, it also appears to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer, too, according to a new U.S. study of nearly half a million older men and women.

Vitamin D Prevents Cold And Flu
by eNotAlone.com
Vitamin D appears to be important for the immune system to fight against the common cold, according to the experts from the University of Colorado Denver (UC Denver) School of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Children's Hospital Boston.

Vitamin B Prevents Blindness
by eNotAlone.com
Women who take vitamin B and folic acid supplements are less likely to develop common type of vision loss, called age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a new study reports. Age-related macular degeneration is a progressive disease which leads

Older Women Do Not Benefit From Multivitamin Use
by eNotAlone.com
The largest study ever of multivitamin use in older women found no evidence that using pills can prevent postmenopausal women from developing heart disease and common cancers. Half of all Americans take vitamins and other dietary supplements on a regular

Vitamins Are Not Needed For Healthy Children
by eNotAlone.com
According to a new study published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, many healthy children and teenagers take vitamins and mineral supplements that they simply do not even need.

Omega-3 Fatty Acid Improves Tiny Brains
by eNotAlone.com
Researchers have made a world breakthrough when they have boosted the brain function of premature female babies by increasing the amount of an omega-3 fatty acid (known as DHA - docosahexaenoic acid) in either infant's formula or breast milk.

Benefits Of Garlic Questioned
by eNotAlone.com
Garlic has always had a long history of use as a good medicine. From many studies we have known that it has several health benefits such as chemical properties which help to prevent many diseases related to our cells.

Vitamin D Test Errors
by eNotAlone.com
Quest Diagnostics Inc., the world's largest provider of medical diagnostic tests, which has locations nationwide, admitted on Thursday that it provided possibly wrong and inaccurate vitamin D test results to thousands of people over the past two-year

The Vitamine Manual
by Walter H. Eddy
In 1911 Casimir Funk coined the name Vitamin to describe the substance which he believed curative of an oriental disease known as beri-beri. This disease is common in Japan, the Philippines and other lands where the diet consists mainly of rice

How and When To Be Your Own Doctor
by Dr. Isabelle A. Mose, Steve Solomon
I have already explained the hygienist's view of why people get sick. The sequence of causation goes: enervation, toxemia, alternative elimination, disease. However, there is one more link in this chain, a precursor to enervation that

Supplementing Your Diet: Vitamins, Minerals and Beyond
by National Institute of Health
The world of dietary supplements is getting more and more complicated. People aren't just taking vitamins and minerals anymore. Now, things like glucosamine, saw palmetto, black cohosh and ginkgo biloba are crowding onto shelves beside old standbys