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Calcium, vitamin D pills don't prevent fractures, panel says
More than half of American women over the age of 60 take vitamin D and calcium supplements, but the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said this week that they’re probably wasting their money. In a new recommendations from the federal government&...
Tags: New York University, Dietary Supplements, Vitamin D, Mineral Supplements, Post Menopause
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Supplements we take mostly not ordered by doctors, study says
There is oh, so much publicity about fish oil pills, calcium and vitamin D – let alone the many more unusual dietary supplements. Are Americans persuaded? About half of U.S. adults use dietary supplements, and less than a quarter of the people who...
Tags: Vitamin Therapy, Vitamin D, Health Treatments, Death, Heart Disease
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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: Weight, Vitamin C, Drugs and Medicines, Walmart, Massachusetts General Hospital
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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: Human Interest, Grapes, Medical Services, Stress, Skin Damage
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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: Injuries and Wounds, Physical Conditions, Weight, Heart Disease, Organic Foods
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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 Care Reform (2009), Physical Conditions, Chest, High Blood Pressure, Menopause
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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.... -
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 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.")
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 Insurance Cost, Vitamin Therapy, Plastic Surgeons, Chiropractors, Common Cold
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A Chemical Imbalance
Times Staff WriterAs she stared down into a wide-mouthed plastic jar aboard the R/V Discoverer, Victoria Fabry peered into the future. The marine snails she was studying — graceful creatures with wing-like feet that help them glide through the water — had...Tags: AIDS, Global Warming, Atlantic Ocean, Science, University of Miami
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Multivitamins: Do his and hers make a difference?
It's a good thing dietary guidelines aren't laws. If they were, just about all of us could be found guilty. Even if you load fruit onto your whole-grain cereal and pile greens on your sandwiches, chances are you're regularly falling short on one or more...Tags: Vitamin Therapy, Oregon State University, Cancer, Vitamin C, Men's Health
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A changed man: the gains of weight loss
Richmond Times-DispatchThe number on the scale the afternoon of Feb. 27, 2012, brought home the cold reality that I had avoided for so long: 495 pounds. Five more pounds and I would weigh exactly 500 pounds -- or, more starkly, a quarter ton. I immediately began inwardly...Tags: Potatoes, Weight Loss Surgery, Vitamin Therapy, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Weight
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