Archive for the 'Nutrition / Diet' Category


Vitamin E And C Don’t Change Cancer Risk, Long Term Study

A large-scale long term study taking up to ten years and involving older American men found that Vitamin E and Vitamin C were no different to placebo in protecting against cancer. The researchers presented their findings at the 7th Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research hosted by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and taking place in National Harbor, Maryland, this week.
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11/17/2008 | Complememntary & Alternative Medicine - Nutrition / Diet | Trackback | Comments Off

Vitamin D Activated And Immune Response Increased By Lung Airway Cells

Vitamin D is essential to good health but needs to be activated to function properly in the human body. Until recently, this activation was thought to happen primarily in the kidneys, but a new University of Iowa study finds that the activation step can also occur in lung airway cells. The study also links the vitamin D locally produced in the lung airway cells to activation of two genes that help fight infection. The study results appear in the Nov.
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11/04/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma - Nutrition / Diet | Trackback | Comments Off

Surgeons Discover That Vitamin C And Other Antioxidants Reduce Infections, Pulmonary Failure, And Abdominal Wall Complications In Trauma Patients

Despite continuing improvements in overall delivery of care to critically injured patients, many trauma victims who survive their initial injury will often die of multiple-organ failure following an operation. In a study presented at the 2008 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), Bryan A.
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10/18/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma - Nutrition / Diet | Trackback | Comments Off

Brazilian Acai Berry Antioxidants Absorbed By Human Body

A Brazilian palm berry, popular health food though little research has been done on it, now may have its purported benefits better understood. In the first research involving people, the acai (ah-sigh-EE) berry has proven its ability to be absorbed in the human body when consumed both as juice and pulp. That finding, by a team of Texas AgriLife Research scientists, was published in a recent issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
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10/07/2008 | Complememntary & Alternative Medicine - Nutrition / Diet | Trackback | Comments Off

Red Wine May Lower Lung Cancer Risk

Moderate consumption of red wine may decrease the risk of lung cancer in men, according to a report in the October issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. "An antioxidant component in red wine may be protective of lung cancer, particularly among smokers," said Chun Chao, Ph.D.
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10/07/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma - Nutrition / Diet | Trackback | Comments Off

COPD? Eat Your Veggies

You know it's good for you in other ways, but could eating your broccoli also help patients with chronic lung disease? It just might. According to recent research from Johns Hopkins Medical School, a decrease in lung concentrations of NRF2-dependent antioxidants, key components of the lung's defense system against inflammatory injury, is linked to the severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in smokers.
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09/14/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma - Nutrition / Diet | Trackback | Comments Off

Natural Products Association, Virgo Publishing To Conduct In-Depth GMP Training Before SupplySide West

When the FDA's GMP rule becomes effective for your dietary supplement company, will your business be ready? It isn't a question to gamble on noncompliance can damage your operations and cripple your business. By June 25, 2010, all supplement manufacturers must be in compliance with the final U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) good manufacturing practices (GMP) rule published on June 25, 2007.
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09/05/2008 | Complememntary & Alternative Medicine - Nutrition / Diet | Trackback | Comments Off

Increased Risk Of Death Associated With Low Vitamin D Levels

Low vitamin D levels are associated with a higher risk of death, according to a report released on August 11, 2008 in the Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Vitamin D is a group of prohormones that play important roles in calcium metabolism, bone formation, parathyroid function, and the immune system. Presently, the ideal bood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) has been suggested as 30 nanograms per milliliter or higher.
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08/13/2008 | Complememntary & Alternative Medicine - Nutrition / Diet | Trackback | Comments Off

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