In a review published in Nutrients, Dr. Harri Hemila of the University of Helsinki reported that three different controlled trials had found that vitamin C significantly protected against pneumonia. The review, published in March 2017, asserted that vitamin C...
Using the “Five servings a day” guideline, about one in ten people consume enough fruits and vegetables. But it gets worse: The recommended five-a-day is an old recommendation that dates back to the 1990s. Today most experts are recommending 10 servings of...
More than one food and nutrition writer has referred to broccoli as “The Vegetable Queen.” And for good reason. If you don’t already, you should consider incorporating broccoli as one of your regular foods. Here are a few things The Vegetable Queen...
Sophisticated analyses of two clinical trials suggest that thousands of early preterm births could be prevented if pregnant women took a daily supplement of the essential fatty acid Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA). DHA is an omega-3 essential fatty acid and is typically...
Many, if not most, people have never heard of the essential mineral molybdenum, let alone considered its key role in a lot of our body’s functions. Molybdenum helps protect existing cells and creates new healthy cells. It aids the cellular processes such as digesting...
After decades of giving chemotherapy to women for breast cancer and being told it was a necessity, the public now discovers what many of us have known for years, it isn’t needed for many women. Tens of thousands of women who chose to not do chemo over the years have...
