14th February 2013
An updated Cochrane Review on vitamin C and the common cold has found vitamin C to be particularly beneficial for people under heavy physical stress. In five randomized trials of participants with heavy short-term physical stress, vitamin C halved the incidence of the common cold. Three of the trials studied...
Categories: Nutritional News, Sport & Exercise
Read more...9th February 2013
If you have been following advice to swap butter and other saturated fats for “healthy” margarines and vegetable oils then you ought to take notice of evidence published in the British Medical Journal this week. The new evidence, from a previously missing data, shows replacing saturated fats (found in meat, eg...
Categories: Nutritional News, Healthy Aging, Metabolic Health
Read more...1st February 2013
The topic of vitamin D is very much in vogue, with evidence suggesting that the majority of the world’s population has inadequate vitamin D status. While historically vitamin D has been known as critical for bone health, it is now known that deficiency constitutes a key factor in many of today’s most prevale...
Categories: Nutritional News
Read more...25th January 2013
Supplementing children’s diets with fish oil, enrolling them in nursery and engaging them in interactive reading all turn out to be effective ways to raise a young child’s intelligence, according to a new report published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological...
Categories: Nutritional News, Children's Health
Read more...14th January 2013
Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy is relatively common and may cause significant adverse health issues for both mother and child. Studied health issues associated with low vitamin D status during pregnancy include preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, post postpartum depression and low birth weight.
A study...
Categories: Nutritional News, Children's Health
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