If you take vitamin supplements, as I do, you'll want to pay attention to an emerging debate over how closely vitamins might be regulated in this country.
The outcome could be as severe as the Food and Drug Administration regulating vitamins like prescription drugs or as simple as more detailed labeling about vitamin supplements and their effects.
A weight control protein with a key role in the brain's ability to monitor body fat content may yield new approaches for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes, according to a new report in the August issue of Cell Metabolism. The findings in mice further suggest that particular variants of the protein SH2-B might underlie obesity in humans, the researchers said.
The idea that animals live longer if they eat less has been shown to be not entirely correct - at least in fruit flies. For these insects, it is the type of food and not just the quantity that controls their longevity.
It has been known for some time that
Researchers with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) found that a diet high in docosahexenoic acid, or DHA--an omega-3 fatty acid found in relatively high concentrations in cold-water fish--dramatically slowed the progression of Alzheimer's disease in mice. Specifically, DHA cut the harmful brain plaques that mark the disease.
If you have had your cholesterol tested, taken a lipid-lowering drug, had a mammogram, or taken HRT with thyroid, testosterone, estrogen, melatonin, or DHEA, you have experienced anti-aging medicine.
In the early 1990s, anti-aging doctors coined the buzz-term, 'smart drug.' Somewhat of a misnomer, 'smart drug' connotes those agents, of a pharmaceutical, nutrient, or botanical origin
Spring is in the air, and with it a rather stark harbinger has arrived. A report released on May 9, 2003 by the United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency (FSA) startled nutrition experts by issuing warnings against nearly all vitamin and mineral dietary supplements from A to Z. The FSA is now poised to slash recommended dosages of some of the most commonly used vitamins and minerals, and ban others.
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Weight loss and dieting is a perennial subject of conversation, TV talk
shows, best-selling books, and even trips to the doctor.u00a0 And no wonder. In
spite of the widespread introduction of "low fat", "no fat", and "reduced fat"
foods and snacks throughout the 1990's, obesity has reached epidemic proportions
in much of the Western world.
