Filed under: Food and Nutrition, Women's Health It's a well-known fact that older women need calcium and vitamin D to fight bone loss. But it's also important that younger, active women get calcium and vitamin D to prevent stress fractures. A recent study looked at more than 5,000 female U.S. Navy r ...
More calories per bite may up diabetes risk Eating a diet full of energy-dense foods, those that have a higher number of calories per volume, may increase a person’s risk of developing diabetes. Researchers from the Institute of Metabolic Science in Cambridge, England, found that those who ate the m ...
I got a phone call from my RNP; my screening tests show no problems, but my vitamin D is still a little low. She suggested I continue to take a 1000iu Vitamin D tablet a day. During my checkup RNP also urged me to start taking a multivitamin again. I have, and it has 400iu [...]
In the October 2008 issue of the Vitamin D Council’s newsletter, there was a connection made between vitamin D and acne. Although the mention in the newsletter was brief, they linked to a very thorough and detailed study done by AIERLIN T.-R. MAYNARD, M.D. in 1938. Here is the segment from the Vitam ...
webmd.com Getting the calcium and vitamin D you need is easier than you think — if you eat the right foods. Though experts haven't yet agreed on the ideal amount for people with osteoporosis, your doctor may advise up to 1,500 milligrams of calcium a day. “With osteoporosis, the general advice is to ...
It is the time of the year to relax and get some sun and sand as summer approaches! In Australia, exposure to sunlight is our prime source of vitamin D. When sunlight falls on our skin, a cascade of complex chemical reactions take place on our skin to form vitamin D3 and D2. These vitamins are then ...
by James Hubbard, M.D., M.P.H. This new study, relating autism to increased precipitation, is a classic “scare of the day” news story. You will see it everywhere. Some people will latch onto it as a factual cause of autism, but you will never hear if it is disproven. Don’t get me wrong. The research ...
Essential to good health, vitamin D requires activation to function properly in the body. Until recently, this activation was thought to occur primarily in the kidneys. A study finds it can occur in lung airway cells and links the vitamin D produced in the lung airway cells to activation of infectio ...
One of the most trying times in a woman’s life has to be menopause. There are so many different changes that your body needs to adjust to, it can be difficult to get through it if you aren’t completely familiar with it. To that end, we’ve made this article to give you a better idea of some of the th ...
Is white skin an adaptation to the cereal diet that Europeans have been consuming for the past five to seven thousand years? When early Europeans switched from hunting and gathering to cereal agriculture, the new diet may have provided less vitamin D (i.e., from fatty fish), which the body needs to ...
