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Posted in Vitamins on Jun 1st, 2008
Vitamin E
For a time, vitamin E supplements looked like an easy way to prevent heart disease. Promising observational studies, including the Nurses’ Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study, suggested 20 to 40 percent reductions in coronary heart disease risk among individuals who took vitamin E supplements (usually containing 400 IU or [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Vitamins on Jun 1st, 2008
A daily multivitamin is a great nutrition insurance policy. Some extra vitamin D may add an extra health boost.
Trying to follow all the studies on vitamins and health can make your head swirl. But, when it’s all boiled down, the take–home message is actually pretty simple: A daily multivitamin, and maybe an extra vitamin D [...]
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