The real facts about Vitamin C may surprise you. First of all what is Vitamin C? Vitamin C is a water soluble vitamin. Unlike the oil soluble vitamins such as A and E, Vitamin C cannot be stored by your body. Since Vitamin C is not stored by your body, we need to get it […]
Posted on June 30th, 2007
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Why Do Liquid Vitamins Contain Antioxidants?
by: Kristy Haugen
Vitamins offer many health benefits. Many only think they need to take a good vitamin supplement because their mother said so. However, vitamin supplements offer antioxidants such as vitamin E, vitamin C, and vitamin A. These antioxidants combat reactive oxygen intermediates (free radicals). In […]
Posted on June 27th, 2007
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Vitamins Keep Your Heart Fighting Fit
by: Perry Stamide
Vitamins are essential to keep your heart healthy. Of
course, you need to eat the right foods with less fat and
cholesterol, but you need to supplement your food with
vitamins to keep your body in the best shape and your heart
pumping for a long time.
Vitamin E is the first vitamin […]
Posted on June 23rd, 2007
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Are Liquid Vitamins Enough?
by: Daniel Weigum
In our fast paced world, the population is eating a diet that accommodates the fast paced lifestyle. Fast food is easy and allows the working class to eat a meal in the convenient allotted hour.
Health professionals and advocates constantly preach the risks of this lifestyle. The repeated calorie and trans […]
Posted on June 20th, 2007
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Moderate amounts of vitamin E in the diet can protect against Parkinson’s disease, according to a study in the Lancet Neurology (2005;4:362?5).
A chronic, progressive neurological disease, Parkinson’s disease is characterized by resting tremors, increasing muscle rigidity, and eventual paralysis. The cause is unknown, but a number of factors, including age, genetics, and environmental influences are […]
Posted on June 16th, 2007
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Obesity, especially in children, is a matter of rapidly growing concern in the United States. For the first time in decades, we are projecting a decline in life expectancy for the current generation of pre-teens and children! This crisis has attracted the attention of everyone from former president Bill Clinton to the Surgeon General to […]
Posted on June 13th, 2007
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Use Iron and B Vitamins To Improve Your Brain Activity
by: Rudy Silva
Iron and Dementia
In the US iron deficiency has been found to be a major problem in people of all ages. Everyone knows the lack of iron causes anemia. Iron is the center of our red blood cells, which allow oxygen to be […]
Posted on June 9th, 2007
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Taking good care of your body means that you are able to maintain adequate amounts of the minerals, vitamins and nutrients that are needed to ensure a totally healthy well-being. Also, it is very important to note that the heart requires a significant amount of attention too, in order for it to be able to […]
Posted on June 6th, 2007
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There are a host of choices for supplementing your Ironman diet. I’ll give you descriptions of a few that I found helpful to my Ironman training and racing. I won’t delve too deeply into the world of vitamins. This is an area best left to the experts. As I said earlier, if I have not […]
Posted on June 2nd, 2007
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