Vitamins and Health

Can Vitamin D really help prevent you from developing cancer? Once only associated with strong bones and teeth, new scientific research is finding that Vitamin D can cut your risk of developing common cancers by as much as 50%. Says Sara Hiom, head of health information at Cancer Research UK, “There is evidence to suggest that the vitamin (Vitamin D) plays a role in keeping cells healthy.” Researchers in the U.S. have found that the “natural” form of Vitamin D, D3 or...

Vitamin Advice

Have you ever waltzed into your friendly neighborhood Nutrition Store or frantically surfed the worldwide web searching for that elusive miracle pill, deluding yourself into believing that maybe, just maybe, it would somehow magically transform your so-called body into the next Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie? Or perhaps you want pecks like Arnold. Or the energy to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Or heck, maybe you’d simply settle for enough energy to pry your sleepy little self out of...

Vitamins and Health

There is some evidence from a few small studies that the western diet has changed significantly in the last 20 years and there are certain vitamin and mineral deficiencies likely to be found in a typical American diet. There are nutrients and herbs that have the potential to affect hair growth in a positive or negative way. There are three basic ways that nutritional diet vitamin supplements and amino acid supplements may act influence the hair follicles. The mineral rich and vitamin...

Vitamin Advice

For reasons that may not be purely in the name of healthy living, many people opt to become vegetarians and swear off eating meat for the remainder of their lives, or until they can hold it. There are actually several types of vegetarian diets, indicating that there are actually varying levels of vegetarianism. There are the complete vegetarians (“vegans”) or those who eat only vegetables, fruits, seeds, legumes, nuts and grains. Some vegans even go to the extent of not wearing any leather...

Vitamin Advice

Learning about vitamins can be confusing, especially when you are trying to figure out just what type of supplements you should be taking. We’ve all been told at one time or another, that if we ate a nutritionally balanced meal three times a day we wouldn’t need dietary supplements or need to know about vitamins, but of course, this just isn’t realistic in our society. A huge number of us are stressed out on a routine basis, and don’t always have time to eat at all let alone a...

Vitamin Types

When most people hear the word “anemia,” they immediately think of iron. But a shortage of Vitamin B6 can also cause a type of anemia because this vitamin is vital to the healthy generation of hemoglobin in the blood of a normal, healthy person. You may also associate Vitamin B6 with sugar diabetes, and that’s because one of the important functions of this vitamin is to regulate the amount of sugar in the blood. Vitamin B6 is also known as pyridoxine. You may not have heard of many people...