News tagged with vitamins b
Vitamin B and folic acid may reduce risk of age-related vision loss
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Taking a combination of vitamins B6 and B12 and folic acid appears to decrease the risk of age-related macular degeneration in women, according to a report in the February 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Splitting fluorescent protein helps image clusters in live cells
Dec 26, 2009 |
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Half a protein is better than none, and in this case, it's way better than a whole one. A Rice University lab has discovered that dividing a particular fluorescent protein and using it as a tag is handy for analyzing the ...
Home-based child care meeting nutritional standards; widespread use of TV a concern
Dec 15, 2009 |
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A large study of family child care providers shows that while nutrition standards are often met, most children ages 2 to 5 are not getting enough physical activity and are exposed to the television for most of the day.
Marketing a 'spoonful of sugar'
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Dec 15, 2009 |
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Your kids won't wear their seatbelts, take their vitamins or brush their teeth? A new study by Tel Aviv University offers a simple formula that will get better compliance in the kid department -- and has implications for ...
Shopping study: Do free samples really make you buy products?
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As you do your holiday shopping this year, you'll probably encounter plenty of free sample stands at the big warehouse stores and grocery stores. Common sense might tell you that eating a bunch of samples ...
ADA releases updated position paper on nutrient supplementation
Dec 08, 2009 |
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While supplements can help some people meet their nutrition needs, eating a wide variety of nutrient-rich foods is the best way for most people to obtain the nutrients they need to be healthy and reduce their risk of chronic ...
Antioxidant compound reduced incidence of colorectal metachronous adenomas
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Supplementation with a selenium-based antioxidant compound decreased the risk of developing new polyps of the large bowel — called colorectal metachronous adenomas — in people who previously had colorectal polyps removed.
Balancing protein intake, not cutting calories, may be key to long life
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Getting the correct balance of proteins in our diet may be more important for healthy ageing than reducing calories, new research funded by the Wellcome Trust and Research into Ageing suggests.
Autism treatment: Risky alternative therapies have little basis in science
Nov 24, 2009 |
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James Coman's son has an unusual skill. The 7-year-old, his father says, can swallow six pills at once. Diagnosed with autism as a toddler, the Chicago boy had been placed on an intense regimen of supplements and medications ...
Let them eat snail
Nov 19, 2009 |
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A nutritionist in Nigeria says that malnutrition and iron deficiency in schoolchildren could be reduced in her country by baking up snail pie. In a research paper to be published in the International Journal of Food Safety, Nu ...
Treatment with folic acid, vitamin B12 associated with increased risk of cancer, death
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Patients with heart disease in Norway, a country with no fortification of foods with folic acid, had an associated increased risk of cancer and death from any cause if they had received treatment with folic acid and vitamin ...
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