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Blind faith across the generations
I can't really pinpoint when my dad first started bringing home the powdery mixture, as white as sugar and as fine as beach sand.
He'd step into the kitchen and sprinkle it — three grams at a time — into some orange juice and stir to the...Tags: Health, Sickle-cell Disease, Vitamin E, University of California, Los Angeles, Health Treatments
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Seeking the right recipe for food labels
You can give people all sorts of useful information, but that doesn't mean they'll use it.
Case in point: the Nutrition Facts panels inscribed on nearly every can, box, jug, carton and plastic wrapper in which food has been sold since 1994. These small,...Tags: Health, Obesity, Consumers, General Mills Incorporated, New York University
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Questions remain about vitamin D benefits and risks
Vitamin D has emerged as something of a wonder supplement, according to the claims of dozens of studies published in the past few years. Researchers have suggested that adequate levels of the nutrient not only strengthen bones, but reduce the risk of...Tags: Health, Cancer, Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Research, Internal Medicine
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Toward better school lunches
When it comes to school lunches, federal officials apparently can't see the pizza for the tomato paste. A congressional vote that slightly affected the nutritional content of federally subsidized lunches has prompted cries of outrage because it blocked...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Tomatoes, Food Industry, Dietary Supplements, Children's Health
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'Pizza vegetable' controversy is hot potato
A law blocking new regulations of tomato paste, spuds and salt in school meals causes a stir.
If you've been following the headlines recently, you could be forgiven for thinking that pizza is now considered a vegetable in the cafeterias of American...Tags: Health, Agricultural Research and Technology, Education, Salt, Recipes
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Pets join in on the organic food trend
When Gabriel, a 10-year-old rescue cat from Chinatown, tucks into his morning meal, you won't see any Friskies or Meow Mix in his bowl. Ahi tuna and duck are more the ticket.
"I think there's more than enough pesticides and chemicals and that kind of...Tags: Health, Companies and Corporations, Genetic Engineering, Lifestyle and Leisure, Arable Farming
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Wrinkles might be linked to bone density in post-menopausal women
As if wrinkles weren’t enough to worry about: Deepening smile lines and crow’s feet just might indicate weak bones, a risk for future fractures, new research suggests.
The study that led to such a conclusion hasn't been published yet, and...Tags: Health, Skin, WebMD Corporation, Human Body, Bones and Joints
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Skeleton in the Closet
Young people don’t give much thought to their bones unless they’ve broken one. Yet maintaining strong bones is arguably one of the most important things men and women can do to guarantee a robust old age.
Seventy-five percent of skeletal...Tags: Skin, Health, Lifestyle and Leisure, Osteoporosis, Bones and Joints
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Ladies First
Equality of the sexes in the boardroom? It’s about time. The kitchen and the classroom? Absolutely. The doctor’s office? Now there’s a novel idea....
Men and women experience health in fundamentally different ways. Did you know that a...Tags: Health, Health Care Reform (2009), Human Body, Chest, Jaw
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Ticket Replay: Michelle Obama's health reform plan for restaurant menus and families dining out
Top of the TicketThe Democrat wants Americans to eat healthier in restaurants, but look what her husband does.... -
California a cornucopia of natural beauty products
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAs families sit down at the table Thursday to give thanks for a bountiful feast, we can also give thanks for the bounty of California, where the harvest is diverse and year-round. And — more thanks — many of California's abundant crops and...Tags: Skin, Behavioral Conditions, Health and Medical Professionals, Lemons, Society
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Letters: Different views on the need for vitamin D
![I was deeply saddened with the Institute of Medicine report that we are a healthy nation in regard to our calcium and vitamin D intakes ["Sweeping Away the Hype About Vitamin D," Dec. 6]. As a physician keenly interested in my patients' nutrition status and needs, I find the report flawed. By arbitrarily setting the lower limit of normal vitamin D blood level at 20 nanograms per milliliter, they are missing the borderline deficiency between 20 and 40 ng/ml.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-12/58213052-11084845.jpg)
I was deeply saddened with the Institute of Medicine report that we are a healthy nation in regard to our calcium and vitamin D intakes ["Sweeping Away the Hype About Vitamin D," Dec. 6]. As a physician keenly interested in my patients' nutrition status...Tags: Health, Vitamin Therapy, Plastic Surgeons, Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Research
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