Vitamin B-12 - Articles
Health Headlines - November 29
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Meredy
Many Type 2 Diabetes Patients Morbidly Obese: U.S. Study Twenty percent of Americans with type 2 diabetes are more than 100 pounds overweight (morbidly obese), according to a Loyola University Health System study. "The rate of morbid obesity among people with diabetes is increasing at a very alarming rate, and this has substantial public healt ...
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Vitamin D Food Sources
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Jan
Food sourcesVitamin :-D Food Sources by Jan2517 on Polyvore.com Vitamin Dз in foods is found mostly in fish oils. It can also be made synthetically by ultraviolet light irradiation of a derivative of cholesterol. Vitamin D2 is a different synthetic form, known as ergocalciferol. The Vitamin D added to milk, a practice begun in the 1930's to p ...
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Vitamin D: An Alternative View
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Matt M.
I have written a number of times about the benefits of Vitamin D. However, in the interest of being objective, I do want to point out that there are legitimate questions about using Vitamin D supplements. A lot of it is summarized in this paper(pdf).Further commentary is available on the Bacteriality website. They make raise some interesting que ...
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Exercise & Prostate Cancer Risk
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Robert W.
Weekly Health Update: Exercise & Prostate Cancer Risk "A critical weekly review of important new research findings for health-conscious readers..." By, Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS Updated: 11/29/2009The information in this column is intended for informational purposes only, and does not constitute medical advice or recommendati ...
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The Evolution of Lighter Skin
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Matt M.
I just read an interesting paper on skin color. The authors hypothesize that lighter skin evolved as a way to increase Vitamin D production under conditions of less sunlight at the higher latitudes. Apparently, this theory has been around for a while, but I've never heard of it.The authors suggest that the key is sexual selection. Vitamin D defi ...
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C25K: Okay, I lied
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amandaliveswell
After my entry this morning, I decided it might be worthwhile to just make a hard restart on everything today. So I refreshed my C25K app and took another stab at Day One.Great news! My side didn’t hurt once. I made sure to start my day with a good breakfast (1/2 cup oats, 4 oz yogurt, 2 cups of coffee) and some water. I also started a vitami ...
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Holiday foods for good immune health
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Craig At Balanced Immune Health
OK, you’ve survived Black Friday. And along the way, you ‘ve probaby got yourself exposed to a lot of pathgens in the malls. You and your teen-aged daughter probably went to see “New Moon” and sat in theater seats occupied by countless others in the prior week, with no germocidal spray applied to those seats before you ar ...
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No Oat Oatmeal… It’s No-atmeal!
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Mark S.
When you’re looking for a protein-packed breakfast, eggs and meat seem like the most obvious choice. But if you go for the most obvious choice every single morning, it’s easy to get stuck in a rut. So on those mornings when meat and eggs aren’t what you’re craving and you wake up feeling less like a hunter and more like a ga ...
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What goes up can't come down
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Dr. William D.
According to conventional wisdom, heart scan scores cannot be reduced. In other words, say you begin with a heart scan score of 300. Conventional wisdom says you should take aspirin and a statin drug, eat a low-fat "heart healthy" diet, and take high blood pressure medications, if necessary. If your heart scan score goes up in a year or ...
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