Supplements

What levels of nutrients should you aim for in a supplement programme?

Everyone is different and therefore has unique nutritional needs. But a general indication as to how much to supplement of each individual nutrient can be calculated by subtracting the amount you can achieve from a reasonably healthy diet from the estimated Optimum Daily Allowances. The shortfall between the two gives you a general guide as to the sort of levels to look for in your supplement programme.

In this section you can explore all there is to know about vitamins and supplements, including their benefits, signs of deficiencies, dosages, and much more.

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Supplements for pregnancy

Being pregnant takes a lot out of your body. So to boost energy and have...

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Supplement dangers exaggerated

A report out today in the New England Journal of Medicine and reported in The...

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Are vitamins harmful to health?

This old chestnut, the claim made today in the Daily Mail that vitamin supplements increase...

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Vitamins – a waste of money?

Three simultaneously published papers appeared today in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a struggling journal...

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Billion Dollar Scam in an article

I was recently passed an article entitled ‘Billion-Dollar Scam in a Bottle; Vitamins could be...

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Supplements help macular degeneration of the eyes

Age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is the most common cause of vision loss in those aged...

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Kidney stones caused by vitamin C?

This old story hit the newspapers this week due to a study of several thousand...

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Cancer – screening risks.. vitamins help

A report out today concludes that, for every life breast cancer mammogram screening saves, three...

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Do nutritional supplements increase risk of death?

Headlines rang out over the UK that taking vitamins might very slightly increase risk of...

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Are supplements under EU threat?

In the past few weeks I’ve received a lot of emails from people who have...

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Multi-vitamins improve multi-tasking

New research has found that taking a daily multivitamin and mineral can have a positive...

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Multivitamin use cuts heart disease risk

A study of over 77,000 people finds that those who take either daily multivitamins or...

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Multivitamin users are younger, says new study

A survey of multivitamin users and non-users, measuring their biological age, has found that multivitamin...

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How multivitamins may extend life

A study conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health has discovered a mechanism...

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Why Taking an RDA Multivitamin Won’t Save Your Life

A recent study analysed the risk, over an average of eight years, of developing, or...

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Drug Ads Bias Medical Journals Against Vitamins

Pharmaceutical money buys journal influence, says new study. “In major medical journals, more pharmaceutical advertising...