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Lack Of B Vitamins In Children Predicts Obesity

Lack Of B Vitamins In Children Predicts Obesity

A study published in the Journal of Nutrition in October 2014 found a lack of B vitamins in children predicts obesity. The study was conducted in children aged 8 to 15.  The researchers came from the University of Queensland, but the study was done on Mexican-American children who par
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Heart Failure Linked To Low Bone Density

Heart Failure is Linked to Low Bone Density

Introduction This article is about the fact that heart failure is linked to low bone density. Indeed, a study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology analyzed the bone density of more than 13,000 healthy individuals. In addition, the researchers also examined their hearts
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Resveratrol Helps Memory And Blood Sugar

Resveratrol Helps Memory And Blood Sugar

Introduction The Journal of Neuroscience reported that resveratrol helps memory and blood sugar. The researchers described a trial on 23 healthy, but overweight persons between the ages of 50 and 75. The healthcare workers gave them 200 mg of resveratrol as a supplement per day for 26
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Fiber Prolongs Life After A Heart Attack

Fiber Prolongs Life After A Heart Attack

You heard that fiber is good for colon cancer prevention, but have you heard that fiber prolongs life after a heart attack? This is exactly what a study that appeared in the British Medical Journal in April 2014 showed. The lead investigator, Shanshan Li (Harvard School of Public Heal
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Vitamin D Increases Cancer Survival

Vitamin D Increases Cancer Survival

Vitamin D increases cancer survival as a study at the University of Edinburgh, England showed: about 1600 patients were operated on for colon cancer and around that time their blood levels for vitamin D were also checked. Professor Malcolm Dunlop, the lead investigator, found that pat
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Magnesium Supplements Cut Diabetes Risk

Magnesium Supplements Cut Diabetes Risk

A study from Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts has followed a cohort of the Framingham Heart Study for 7 years and published their findings on October 17, 2014. The study group consisted of 2,582 participants from the Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort with an average age
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Mediterranean Diet Keeps You Young

A study which was continuing for more than ten years involving 5000 nurses found that a Mediterranean diet keeps your cells younger for longer. The nurses involved in this study were eating a diet consisting of vegetables, chicken, fish, fruit, but they stayed away from red meats, but
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High Dose Vitamin C Helps Epstein Barr Infection

An article in the Medical Science monitor dated May 4, 2014 reported about a small study from the Riordan Clinic in Wichita, Kansas. Nina Mikirova and Ronald Hunninghake treated 35 men and women with chronic fatigue syndrome and other conditions who had documented positive Epstein Bar
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Alternative To Mammography Screening For Breast Cancer

Alternative To Mammography Screening For Breast Cancer

The November issue of the Life Extension magazine contains an interesting article about alternatives to mammography. One mammography study exposes a woman to 0.4 mSV of radiation. This is the equivalent of about 7 weeks of background radiation from space and earth. A mammography expos
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Avoid Prostate Cancer, Take Vitamin D

When you want to avoid prostate cancer, you need to take vitaminD. A study published May 2014 in Clinical Cancer Research found that low vitamin D blood levels were associated with a high risk of developing prostate cancer. Researchers under Rick Kittles from the Department of Medicin
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