Vitamin B
The B vitamin family comprises eight water-soluble nutrients that are essential for functions and processes throughout the body. Most of us probably take the B vitamins for granted, but if we understood how important...
Category: Vitamins
Vitamin C – Recommended Daily Allowance
The U.S. government recently raised the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of vitamin C for adults from 60 milligrams to 80 milligrams. The following table offers RDAs for specific age and risk groups: It’s important...
Vitamin K
Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin that the body uses for blood clotting and bone formation. The “K” in vitamin K comes from the German word koagulation, because the vitamin is essential for the...
Vitamin D Deficiency – Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s disease is a serious, debilitating health condition that causes stiffness, tremors, and lowness of movement due to inadequate levels of dopamine in the brain. In a 2008 study, researchers at the Emory University...
Vitamin D Facts
Recommended Daily Intake Adults Nutritionists once based recommendations for daily vitamin D intake solely on the amount needed to prevent rickets. But because scientists now recognize vitamin D’s role in so many critical physiological...
Vitamin D
Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that the human body uses to maintain normal calcium metabolism and promote bone health. The body can synthesize vitamin D when the skin is exposed to ultraviolet radiation...
Multivitamins and Minerals
Manganese Manganese has received a lot of attention for its role in bone and joint health. Most multivitamins provide only a few milligrams of manganese – enough to satisfy the minimum requirements – but...
What Should My Multivitamin Contain?
There are no perfect answers about what an ideal multivitamin should contain. Whether you’re a man, woman or child will help determine the product that’s best for you, as will your age, your dietary...
Multivitamin / Mineral Supplements
If you were to take only one of the many dietary supplements available today, which would it be? Many nutrition experts recommend a high-quality multivitamin / mineral supplement (referred to simply as a multivitamin,...
Twelve Important Antioxidants
With so many antioxidants available in health food stores, choosing the right supplements may seem impossible, but it’s not. For starters, consider the following 12 antioxidants, which are readily available in health food stores...
Is Your Vitamin Pill Worth It or Worthless? Six Rules to Guarantee Quality
The debate gets heated when people talk about vitamins because some people really believe they work, while others really believe they just make expensive urine. But a recent study looked over thirty years of...
A New Standard For Your Life
Ask yourself the following questions: Does your commitment to health – for yourself and for those you care about – extend to studying all product labels to identify those containing synthetic ingredients? Will you...
Therapeutic Uses of Vitamins
From the discovery of vitamins in 1911 through the 1950s, nearly all doctors based their diagnoses of vitamin deficiencies on readily observable symptoms, such as the hemorrhaging caused by scurvy or the paralysis caused...
The Discovery of Vitamins
The discoveries of the effective vitamins have upon human health developed further around 1905 when an English doctor, William Fletcher, experimented on asylum inmates in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Beriberi was a nutritional deficiency disease...
Vitamins and Minerals Supplementation
Science studies have highlighted a range of health benefits from vitamin and mineral supplementation. Low levels of vitamin B5 have been linked to symptoms of arthritis, and vitamin B3 (niacin) has been shown to...
Misconception: Food Contains All The Vitamins You Need
Some physicians disparage vitamin use by telling patients that “vitamins only produce expensive urine”. Other experts have tried to reassure us that we simply need to eat a balanced diet to get all the...
Vitamin E
In 1922, University of California researchers Hebert Evans and Katherine Bishop discovered vitamin E in green leafy vegetables. Experiments in that year showed that rates reared exclusively on while milk grew normally but were...
Vitamin C’s Crucial Health Role
Once again, you may not want to believe it, but here is the ugly truth about vitamin C, one of the most popular vitamin supplements sold in the world today: Rather than bolstering your...
Vitamin B12: Cobalamin
Vitamin B12 is a soil-based microorganism and the best-known and most complex of all the known B vitamin family. It is unique in that it contains a metal ion, cobalt. For this reason, cobalamin...
Vitamin B9: Folic Acid
Folates are a group of compounds derived from folic acid. They are required for cell division and the formation of DNA (the body’s genetic blueprint) and RNA (which transports DNA data within the cell),...
B Vitamins
Vitamin B1: Thiamine Casimir Funk discovered B1 in 1912. Also known as thiamine, it converts carbohydrates and fats into energy. It also help prevent the buildup of toxic byproducts of this metabolism, which could...
A Cure for Muscle Aches?
Depression and muscle aches also might be a sign you are low in these vitamins. In fact, the depression, as well as the muscles and bones aches in a vitamin D deficiency, mimic the...
The Top Five Most Frequently Asked Questions About Supplements
1. How can I cut down on cost without sacrificing quality? Avoid the “extra” ingredients, such as lipoic acid, enzymes, primrose oil or inositol, to name only a few. These extras add cost, not...
Understand Why Good Nutrition Is So Important
Nutrition – the science of food and its effect on our bodies – is relatively new, at least in comparison to other sciences. But at this point, the science has singled out about forty...