Archive for the ‘Vitamins & Minerals’ Category


Vitamins Harmful? Reports Are All Baseless….

I just read a great article which exposed the recent reports that have been attacking vitamins and supplements as harmful and useless.  It basically exposes these media reports, which have been found in numerous papers and digital media, causing a stir and worry in people who have been taking supplements and vitamins for years and [...]

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What Are the Best Sources of Iron?

As a woman, I know what it means to be iron deficient, especially at that time of the month when you lose some of the iron in your body due to the monthly womanly cycle that we all love (yes I’m being facetious). During this time, and many other times for a lot of women [...]

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What are the Right Doses of Vitamin D for Cancer Prevention?

There is a lot of debate over how many IU’s (International Units to take of Vitamin D3, which is the best form of the vitamin for cancer prevention, and the same form that our body produces when we are exposed to the sunlight. The debate rages pretty much between the standard medical establishment (by that [...]

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Does Vitamin A Help Prevent or Treat Asthma?

There had been some previous speculation that vitamin A may help to either treat or prevent asthma from occurring. There sure has been a lot of stuff about asthma in the news lately. The reason for the vitamin A connection to a potential treatment or preventive medicine against asthma is that this vitamin is crucial to healthy [...]

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Lycopene and Sun Burns

I’ve talked about this before, but I think it is worth mentioning again. Especially considering the fear and paranoia that the media and others in high influence spread about getting sunlight exposure. The sun is there for a reason. It showers us with thermal, therapeutic, absorbing heat, which is therapeutic in its own right (who [...]

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