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Posted in Vitamins on Jun 1st, 2008
Vitamin C
Vitamin C has been in the public eye for a long time. Even before its discovery in 1932, nutrition experts recognized that something in citrus fruits could prevent scurvy, a disease that killed as many as two million sailors between 1500 and 1800. In the 1970s, Chemistry and Peace Nobel laureate [...]
Posted in Vitamins on Jun 1st, 2008
Three of the Bs: Folate, Vitamin B6, and Vitamin B12
One of the advances that changed the way we look at vitamins was the discovery that too little folate, one of the eight B vitamins, is linked to birth defects such as spina bifida and anencephaly.
Fifty years ago, no one knew what caused these birth defects, [...]
Posted in Vitamins on Jun 1st, 2008
Vitamin A
Vitamin A does much more than help you see in the dark. It stimulates the production and activity of white blood cells, takes part in remodeling bone, helps maintain the health of endothelial cells (those lining the body’s interior surfaces), and regulates cell growth and division. This latter role had researchers exploring [...]
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