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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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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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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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Vitamin D3 Benefits Both Heart And Brain

Introduction Here I am discussing that vitamin D3 benefits both heart and brain. Typically, what’s good for the heart is also good for the brain. This has been reconfirmed in two independent studies involving measurements of vitamin D3 levels (25-hydroxy vitamin D). First study The fi
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Higher Vitamin D Levels are Associated with a Lower Risk Of Mortality

Introduction This article is about the fact that higher vitamin D levels are associated with a lower risk of mortality. Dr. Cedric Garland and colleagues undertook a study where they pooled data from 32 studies and determined that a vitamin D3 level of 30 ng/ml or more halved the risk
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Lycopene Prevents Prostate Cancer

Lycopene Prevents Prostate Cancer

The Journal of the National Cancer Institute published a report that lycopene prevents prostate cancer. Lycopenes belong to the carotenoids, which is a group of antioxidant plant chemicals. They are responsible for the red color of tomatoes and other red-pigmented foods. Regarding thi
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Increased Cancer survival with high vitamin D levels

Increased Cancer Survival With High Vitamin D Levels

Two studies showed increased cancer survival with high vitamin D levels. The first study comes from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai by Hui Wang and colleagues (Ref.1) . They pooled results from 25 different studies and looked for vitamin D blood levels and death rates in 1
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Vitamin C Protects From Hemorrhagic Stroke

Vitamin C Protects From Hemorrhagic Stroke

Vitamin c protects from hemorrhagic stroke as Dr. Stéphane Vannier suggested. He presented the results of a study at the American Academy of Neurology 66th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia where he showed that a lack of vitamin C was responsible for hemorrhagic strokes. He stated that dis
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Fish Oil Lowers Blood Pressure

Fish Oil Lowers Blood Pressure

Nobody even thought about looking for the effects of fish oil a few decades back. But this has changed all since we know that high blood pressure is one of the diseases that stems from an inflammatory condition in the lining of the arteries. Given that background it makes sense that D
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Vitamin C Lowers Breast Cancer Death Rates

A study from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute examined records from 10 observational studies and pooled them in a meta-analysis. There were a total of 17,696 women who had been verified to have breast cancer, and during the study there were 2,791 total deaths and 1,558 breast cancer spec
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