17th December 2012
Researchers have found a significant correlation between excessive daytime sleepiness and vitamin D, and race appears to play an important factor.
Results of the study show that in patients with normal vitamin D levels, progressively higher levels of daytime sleepiness were correlated inversely with...
Categories: Nutritional News
Read more...15th December 2012
A new study published in the online scientific journal BMJ Open has found that treating infection-prone patients over a 12-month period with high doses of vitamin D reduces their risk of developing respiratory tract infection — and consequently their antibiotic requirement.
Researchers examined whether...
Categories: Nutritional News
Read more...11th December 2012
Mothers’ vitamin D levels at a gestation of 26 weeks or less are positively related to birth weight and head circumference, and, in the first trimester are negatively associated with risk of a baby being born small for gestational age, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s...
Categories: Nutritional News, Children's Health
Read more...26th November 2012
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle from young adulthood into your 40s is strongly associated with low cardiovascular disease risk in middle age, according to a new study.
The study, the first to show the association of a healthy lifestyle maintained throughout young adulthood and middle age with low cardiovascular...
Categories: Nutritional News, Sport & Exercise, Healthy Aging, Metabolic Health
Read more...12th November 2012
Colon cancer survivors whose diet is heavy in complex sugars and carbohydrate-rich foods are far more likely to have a recurrence of the disease than are patients who eat a better balance of foods, a new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers indicates.
More than 1,000 patients with advanced (stage...
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