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•Insufficient Vitamin D levels in pregnant women
Irrelevant of where you stand on the Big Bang Theory, Adam & Eve or Darwin's evolution, the concept of women getting pregnant has been around for a very long time. And it's something we're very good at. Women have successfully given birth in the most difficult conditions, and to this day still do. In famine, war zones, severe poverty and with serious illnesses, women have produced healthy children against the odds.
But that is where the problem lies: against the odds. And as we learn more...
•More Praise for the Role of Vitamin C
Vitamin C has long been associated with a stronger immune system and as a result is one of the most popular supplements taken in the UK today. However, the results of a recent study on guinea pigs suggest that Vitamin C has another equally important role in early brain development.
The study, performed in Denmark, took 30 new born guinea pigs and gave half of them a Vitamin C deficient diet for 2 months - although not extreme enough to give them scurvy. The other half were given a Vitamin C...
•Have you heard about folic acid
Age-related hearing loss is the most common sensory disorder in the Western world, with 36 million people suffering from it in the USA alone. In fact, it is so common that most of us take it for granted – that at some point our grandparents and parents will become deaf, creating the need for expensive hearing aids or leading to the possibility of loneliness and depression because they can't hear the conversation around them.
But why do we take this for granted? Why should this particular...
•Womens Health The Female Iron y
In the Western world, with so much food available to us, it's hard to imagine large numbers of us could be potentially deficient in any element of nutrition. And yet 1 in 5 pre-menopausal women in the UK are deficient in iron. Even more ironic is that that one person probably appears to be healthier than the rest of us!
Why is this? Because risk factors for iron deficiency are often the same elements you find in healthy women, so it is hard to identify.
1) Low iron intake. As red meat is...
•Understanding the Effects of Antioxidants on the Body
It seems that almost everyone is concerned about their health today. People are constantly bombarded by a stream of information pointing out the rise of obesity and the health effects that this epidemic brings with it. Luckily, scientists and nutritionists have begun to focus on ways to improve our health. Antioxidants have had a lot of press time lately and for good reason.
What is an Antioxidant?
In the simplest terms, an antioxidant is any substance that fights or impairs the normal...
•Can Type II Diabetes be controlled by lifestyle changes alone
Type II Diabetes is a condition where the body is deficient in producing insulin, either it can't produce enough or the insulin it does produce doesn't work properly. This means the glucose levels in the blood can't be controlled and there is the potential for them to become too concentrated.
Traditionally Type II Diabetes was an illness that affected the older generation but more and more young people are discovering they have the disease. Experts believe this is due to higher obesity...
•Why Your Balanced Diet Isn t Enough Today
So you're generally a pretty healthy person. You eat breakfast everyday. You watch your fat and calorie intake. Most of your meats are lean. You try to stay away from simple carbs like white bread and sugar. You work whole wheat in as much as possible and you try to get enough fruit and veggies each day. Congratulations, your diet is healthier than most. Yet you're just not seeing the results you want. You may not be gaining weight but you're certainly not losing it either. What has gone...
•Who has heard of Vitamin K
Well, mothers have all heard of it. Babies are given an injection of Vitamin K at birth to ensure blood coagulation, so it is something mums worry about before labour and then hardly notice once hours of exhausting pain have been lived through.
But the rest of the population? I am willing to bet there is a significant proportion who didn't even know there is a Vitamin K. It is the unknown vitamin, the outsider, that doesn't fit the mould and anyway what happened to Vitamins F, G, H, I and...
•Reduce your children s flu symptoms by 50
While Swine Flu has been in the headlines so much lately with terrible stories of children with no underlying health issues dying from the illness, thank goodness most children who get flu do recover after a few days. However, the symptoms during that time for all types of flu can be severe. High temperature, sore throat, runny nose, coughing. These symptoms can in turn lead to other complications such as tonsillitis, chest and ear infections, which then require antibiotics to clear up.
I...
•New evidence linking Omega 3 with deterrent for Alzheimer s
In 2007, for the first time ever, there were more people over the state-pension age than there were children. And this trend is set to continue - over the next 20 years, the number of people over 85 is predicted to double.
But what quality of life will our older generation have? Medical advances and greater health awareness means that more people are saved from life threatening conditions, but there are a number of non-life threatening conditions that we don't have cures for. For example,...
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