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Four insights to your health from L.A.'s public MD
You think your doctor is too busy? Dr. Jonathan Fielding has about 9 million patients – which is to say, almost everyone in Los Angeles County. He heads the county’s public health department, a department bigger than that of some states. His...
Tags: Vitamin Therapy, Health Treatments, Georgetown, Food and Drug Administration, Dietary Supplements
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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: Health, Vitamin D, Dietary Supplements, New York University, 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: Health Treatments, Diseases and Illnesses, Fish Oil (dietary supplement), Fatty Acids, American Medical Association
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Dockworker strike looms at Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast ports
The nation's retailers, manufacturers and farmers are bracing for a possible strike that could idle U.S. ports all along the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast. That walkout could begin as early as Sunday after the midnight Saturday expiration of a 90-...
Tags: Port of Long Beach, Labor Disputes, Herbalife Limited, Shipping Service, Port of Los Angeles
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Tide of seaweed promises can ebb and flow
Seaweed can shrink your waistline. Grow your hair. Bring down your blood pressure along with your blood sugar. Build up the strength of your bones and your brain. Make your joints stop aching and your bowels get moving. Give cancer short shrift, and...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Cancer, Allergies, National Institutes of Health, Iodine (dietary supplement)
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Supplements for depression: What the research reveals
Struggling with the black dog of depression? The supplement aisle abounds with options for people seeking a non-medicinal remedy — but figuring out what works and what doesn't can be a challenge for consumers and experts alike.
That's because...Tags: Folic Acid, Placebo, Teaching and Learning, HIV, Diseases and Illnesses
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Natural foods: Eating up the trends
Remember chia pets? Rinsing your hair with beer? Food that's just food — no soy protein isolate, xanthan gum, red dye No. 40 or mystery ingredients from the Amazon rain forest?
Well, chia is back, big time (the seeds, not the chia pets). And so...Tags: Environmental Issues, Herbal Supplements, Sales, Economy, Business and Finance, Health
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Shilajit is unproven yet touted as a panacea for many ills
It has a smoky, bitter taste, a deeply unpleasant odor and bears a close resemblance to black gobs of tar. Pricey tar, mind you: 10 grams (a month's supply) will set you back $80. The substance, called shilajit, is an ancient ayurvedic medicine. On...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, India, Central Asia, Health, Dietary Supplements
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'Easily affordable' to save 2 million children, report says
World NowThe world could save 2 million children every year if it helped the neediest countries take 13 recommended steps to conquer malnutrition, according to a new report from Save the Children.... -
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: Weight Loss, Weight, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Heart Attack, Calcium
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Stop the Mane Drain
Khaleej TimesDon't stress about losing your tresses; get savvy and check out our expert tips on the best methods to ?minimise one of the biggest lifestyle banes in the Middle East -- hair fall Does it break your heart to see bunches of your beautiful hair fall out...Tags: Folic Acid, Diets and Dieting, Fatty Acids, Allergies, Michael Jackson
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Men too at risk for osteoporosis
Khaleej TimesOsteoporosis is still considered a disease of older white women, but it is clear that both sexes and all ethnic groups have some risk for fracture, explains Dr Adnan Abdulwahid, Rheumatologist, Zulekha Hospital, Sharjah. Thus, even though women fracture...Tags: COPD, X-rays, Diseases and Illnesses, Broken Hip, Calcium
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