Vitamin
Higher vitamin D intake needed to reduce cancer risk
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha have reported that markedly higher intake of vitamin D is needed to reach blood levels that can prevent or markedly cut th…
Vitamin E may increase or decrease the risk of pneumonia depending on smoking and exercise
Depending on the level of smoking and leisure time exercise, vitamin E supplementation may decrease or increase, or may have no effect, on the risk of pneumonia, according to a study published in Clinical Epidemiology.
In laboratory studies, vitam…
Vitamin D deficiency associated with reduced lung function
VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY ASSOCIATED WITH REDUCED LUNG FUNCTION
New research shows that vitamin D deficiency is prevalent among patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD), with the largest prevalence seen in patients with concurrent connective tis…
Vitamin D and parathyroid hormone levels may not affect cardiovascular mortality
New York, NY, December 15, 2010 — There is burgeoning public interest in possible wide-ranging health benefits from vitamin D, including cardiovascular health. In a study published in the December 2010 issue of The American Journal of Medicine, in…
See off Alzheimer’s with the color purple
Ground-breaking research from Professor Douglas Kell, published in the journal Archives of Toxicology, has found that the majority of debilitating illnesses are in part caused by poorly-bound iron which causes the production of dangerous toxins that…
Vitamin D and calcium — updated dietary reference intakes from IOM
Vitamin D and calcium have been the focus of much research since the Institute of Medicine set nutritional reference values for them in 1997. Known as Dietary Reference Intakes, the values for these and other nutrients serve as a guide for good nutr…
Vitamin D deficiency puts IBD patients at greater risk of osteoporosis
San Antonio, Texas (October 18, 2010) — Vitamin D deficiency puts patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) at greater risk of osteoporosis, osteopenia and an overall higher rate of abnormal bone density, according to the results of a new stu…
Vitamin A increases the presence of the HIV virus in breast milk
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Vitamin A and beta-carotene supplements are unsafe for HIV-positive women who breastfeed because they may boost the excretion of HIV in breast milk—thereby increasing the chances of transmitting the infection to the child, a pai…