All Entries in the "Vitamins & Lifestyle Guide" Category
Daily aspirin therapy not for everyone
Key point: A multitude of data has shown that patients with moderate cardiovascular risk factors, peripheral arterial disease, or diabetes who were given a daily aspirin for primary prevention had minimal to no reductions in cardiovascular morbidity or mortality and were at an increased risk for bleeding.
Finer points: An editorial published by Mori Krantz, MD, [...]
Vitamins and Hair Growth
Loss of hair, or baldness, is the result of not having enough vitamin B supplements. Vitamin B is very important, as it contains B3 niacin, which is very important for growing hair. Vitamin B6 is another important vitamin, containing nutrients such as sulfur, biotin, magnesium, and zinc. Without these vitamins, your body won’t be able [...]
Vitamins That Can Help Your Heart
As we all know, vitamins are very important when it comes to keeping your heart healthy. You need to eat the right foods of course, although you also need to supplement the food you eat with the necessary vitamins your body needs to stay in shape and keep your heart working healthy for a long [...]
Can Vitamin Supplements Help Fight Rheumatoid Arthritis?
The question I would like to bring to your attention today is can vitamins help to fight Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). I decided to do some studying on the subject and what I found was some interesting facts that helped me support this idea. Let me start out by telling you a little more about RA. [...]
Signs You Could Have a Vitamin Deficiency
The majority of Americans suffer from at least one vitamin deficiency, but don’t even know it. It’s easy to pass off that fatigue as not getting enough sleep, or attribute the brittle hair to stress. It’s a growing problem, however, and it helps to know what you’re looking for so you can live a fuller [...]
How to Find the Perfect Vitamin Supplement For Your Unique Body
Consumers are being bombarded with advertising, medical studies and word-of-mouth wisdom about vitamins and mineral supplements. Almost every week a new scientific study proclaims the virtues of vitamin this or that.
RDAs are “Grossly Oversimplified” For Vitamins and Supplements
RDA’s (Recommended Daily Allowance) are also used to set standards in many programs. But many nutritional scientists consider [...]
Vitamin Supplements, Vitamins And Mineral Supplements, Supplements Vitamins, Vitamin Supplement Best
Vitamins and mineral supplements are essential for proper functioning of the body. There are 13 vitamins that are needed by the body to perform different functions. These vitamins supplements are made available to the body through the food we take. All these vitamins supplements required in substantial amounts so that all parts of our body [...]
Vitamin “A” And Your Health
Although the investigations into and discoveries of vitamins began a bit earlier, Casimir Funk, a Polish biochemist, was the first to formulate the concept of vitamins in 1912. Funk then coined the word “vitamine”, but it was later modified to “vitamin”. How does vitamin A help your body? Great question. Vitamin A helps you to [...]
B12 Vitamin overdose, is it a myth or a real possibility?
B12 Vitamin overdose, is it a myth or a real possibility?
For starters, most of the horror stories about vitamin overdoses have been done without any real or relevant research or facts, or the basicunderstanding of the difference between a water-soluble vitamin and a fat soluble vitamin.
Overdose of this vitamin is virtually impossible, as it is [...]
Natural Vitamin Sources
There are a lot of people who do not have enough natural vitamin sources in their diet and therefore suffer from a deficiency of one or more vitamins. Obviously, it is possible to buy vitamin supplements to help overcome any deficiencies but for the majority of people it should be possible for them to obtain [...]
