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Beauty products made with natural ingredients
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIt's never been easier to feel like a natural woman. The 1960s mantra about getting ourselves back to the garden now applies to an increasing number of beauty products, with some small companies literally going to the garden and farm to bring customers...Tags: Chemicals, Dermatologists, Barney's New York Incorporated, Health and Beauty Products, Vitamin Therapy
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In vegan debate, one thing parents must agree on
Is it nutritionally risky to put babies and children on a vegan diet, or is it the best thing for them? "When a mother eats meat, her breast-fed child's brain grows faster and she is able to wean the child at an earlier age, allowing her to have more...
Tags: Breastfeeding, Beta-Carotene, Vitamin B12, Vegan Diet, Human Body
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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: Dining and Drinking, Companies and Corporations, Coconut, Sales, Mushrooms
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Vitamin D linked to stronger bones in girls
Vitamin D may be helpful in protecting highly active pre-teen and teen girls, such as those who play sports, from stress fractures, researchers reported Monday. The study was surprising because calcium has long been considered the nutrient most vital...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Mineral Supplements, Calcium, Science and Technology, Drugs and Medicines
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Five Questions: Daphne Oz
As co-host of "The Chew"(a food and talk show on ABC), Daphne Oz gets to sample items like the Big Mike Burger (two patties, three buns and cheese), chicken and dumplings à la Gwyneth Paltrow and pizza by fellow host Mario Batali.
But the daughter of...Tags: Aromatherapy, Talk Shows (genre), Vegetarian Diet, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Overweight
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That bad attitude? Blame the birth month
If you don't believe in horoscopes, you're in step with science. But that's not the same as saying the season of your birth cannot affect your fate. Hundreds of studies, published in peer-reviewed journals, have suggested that the month a person is born...Tags: Schizophrenia, Weight, Genes and Chromosomes, Colleges and Universities, Pancreas
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The Healthy Skeptic: Is caffeine an effective weight-loss aid?
If losing weight was one of your New Year's resolutions, you might already be growing weary of counting calories and working out. Wouldn't it be great if you could slim down without so much effort?
Anyone looking for a shortcut to weight loss might be...Tags: Weight, Human Body, Michael White, Human Body, Hormones and Metabolism
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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: Dining and Drinking, Weight, Genes and Chromosomes, Menopause, Calcium
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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: Heart Attack, Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Specialization, Menopause, Calcium
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Jack LaLanne was a healthy showoff to the very end
Jack LaLanne was an incredible showoff, and with good reason.
If you can do 1,033 push-ups in 23 minutes at the "over-the-hill" age of 42, then by all means show yourself off. If you can swim more than a mile through the strong currents of Long Beach...Tags: Weight, Jack LaLanne, Health, Physical Conditions, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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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 and Medical Professionals, Calcium, Science and Technology, Common Cold, Vitamin Therapy
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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 E, Heart Disease, Calcium, Prostate, Diseases and Illnesses
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