Monday February 04th 2008, 7:41 pm
Dementia may be three times more common in people lacking a key vitamin, a study suggests.
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Folic acid ‘dementia risk link’ (BBC News)
Vitamin deficiency dementia link (Channel 4)
Monday February 04th 2008, 7:20 pm
Older people who lack a key B vitamin could have triple the chance of developing dementia, experts have said.
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CORRECTED: HIV drugs make breast-feeding safer (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Monday February 04th 2008, 6:53 pm
(Corrects second paragraph to show babies, not mothers, got the drug and 6th paragraph to show babies got vitamins and not placebo.)
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Vitamin E May Help To Prevent Cataracts (Hartford Courant)
Monday February 04th 2008, 6:52 pm
"Quick Study" is a periodic
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Fortified Water Ads Flood Super Bowl (13WHAM Rochester)
Monday February 04th 2008, 4:36 pm
Rochester, N.Y. - Is water enhanced with vitamins and minerals good for you? Or are the claims all wet?
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Straight from the udder.
Monday February 04th 2008, 2:00 pm
Since the fall of 2006, the Spring Brook Township family has been selling unpasteurized, unhomogenized, raw milk straight from the udders of the Holsteins on their 150-acre farm.
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Are the health risks of obesity overblown?
Monday February 04th 2008, 2:00 pm
This week, two prominent skeptics match wits with two obesity experts from Minnesota in a heated debate in the British Medical Journal.
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Kentucky, Indiana blamed for polluting Gulf waters.
Monday February 04th 2008, 2:00 pm
There's a Massachusetts-size "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico that's threatening a $6 billion fishing industry there -- and Kentucky and Indiana are getting some of the blame.
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Beer with Vitamin B…anyone? (ABS-CBNNEWS.com)
Monday February 04th 2008, 1:15 pm
This could be the start of something big...and healthy. A Filipino-made beer with Vitamin B took center stage during the gathering of members of the International Federation of Inventors' Association in Bangkok, Thailand, recently.
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Vitamin E or C does not reduce risk of dementia or Alzheimer’s (PhysOrg)
Monday February 04th 2008, 11:59 am
Contrary to previous research, older adults who use over-the-counter vitamin E or C supplements do not have a reduced risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer`s disease. This is according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society that tracked patients using vitamin E and/or vitamin C supplements over a follow-up period of more than 5 years. The study also finds ...
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