Although potassium is a mineral found in almost every food group, poor eating habits can leave you short. Even if its deficiency is still not directly linked to a disease, like vitamin C to scurvy, this nutrient serves many vital functions in the body.
HealthAmerican Institute for Cancer Research - It’s commonly known that sodium can […]
For 70 million arthritis sufferers, the past few months have been a nightmare. The medicines they rely on to ease their aches and pains have come under fire.
First, Merck withdrew its popular arthritis drug Vioxx because it increased the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Then the Food and Drug Administration required a black-box warning about […]
Tiens Biotech Group (USA), Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: TBGU) , which operates primarily through its subsidiary Tianjin Tianshi Biological Development Co., Ltd (”Biological”), today announced that Jinyuan Li, Chairman, President and CEO of the company, has been named One of the Top Ten Men of the Year for 2004 in China. He received the award in […]
Consumers and producers of popular vitamin and mineral supplements used by thousands every day will this week make a last-ditch attempt to prevent a European Union directive from banning them.
Prolonged magnesium deficiency leads to osteoporosis in rats, finds new research, which could present a warning to many populations not getting adequate levels of the mineral through their diets.
The scientists from Tel-Aviv University and the University of Luebeck in Germany compared rats fed a magnesium-deficient diet daily with rats fed a diet with adequate levels […]
On Tuesday 25th January, Carole Caplin and Chris Grayling MP will visit No.10 to deliver a letter protest to the prime Minister about the EU ban on sales of vitamins and minerals in the UK. They will be joined by numerous protesters and backed by one of the largest e-mail petitions to British MPs, which […]
Medical experts say that more Americans than ever are turning to dietary supplements and other forms of alternative medicines.
* Since 1957, the US Bureau of the Census for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics has annually surveyed US households to get health information through in-person […]
Arguing that a simple healthy diet meets most people’s health needs, European Union officials are continuing their trend of heavy regulation on vitamins and minerals. Meanwhile, there is a lot of confusion about what, exactly, constitutes a healthy diet.
* As the EU moves to regulate or limit public access to vitamins […]
Most vitamins and minerals are essential - human beings need them to live. This doesn’t, however, mean that people’s health improves in line with their growing intake. It is true that some vitamins are simply eliminated when they reach an adequate concentration in the body. However, in the case of other vitamins and minerals oversupply […]
The first attempt in Europe to set maximum safe levels for nutrients in supplements and fortified foods demonstrates that numerous products could be considered unsafe if the same approach is adopted across the European community.
Scientists at Germany’s Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) gathered data on dietary habits in Germany and nutrient levels in the […]