Decades Of Research Or Catchy Current “News” Stories? YOU DECIDE

Recent news stories have attempted to minimize the importance of vitamin and mineral supplements (“The Vitamin Trap,” Mark Moyad, MD, Best Life, www.msn.com). Some articles have even suggested that using vitamin supplements can be dangerous (“Heavy Multivitamin Use May Raise Prostate Cancer Risk,” Ed Edelson, HealthDay Reporter, www.msn.com).These reports are short and sweet, but they don’t tell the whole story, and a longer look at typical headline articles is necessary to determine whether the risk of not supplementing our diets is worth the possible harm.

For several decades, scientific research and clinical studies have proven the benefits of healthy eating and the importance of including key nutritional components in our diets. On a regular basis, we hear from scientists, medical doctors, and other experts about the critical need to improve our diets…Read More

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Bad Diets May Breed Deadlier Viruses

Bad diets may breed deadlier viruses says chilling new evidence presented by researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that poor nutrition leads to mutations of some viruses and creates more dangerous forms.

Mutations that create more dangerous forms of the influenza virus and may contribute to newly virulent outbreaks of viral epidemics ranging from the common cold to AIDS and Ebola may be, in part, caused by deficiencies of certain nutrients.

Deficiencies of selenium allowed the human influenza virus to mutate into more virulent forms in mice, and a similar mutation is likely to occur in people, according to a report in the FASEB Journal, published by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. “Once the mutations have occurred, even mice with normal nutrition are more susceptible to the newly virulent strain,” explained one of the researchers involved in the study.

The researchers stressed that proper nutrition not only influences the health of an individual, it can ultimately influence the health of society in general.

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Nutritionals – In a world of fast food choices is it any wonder that our health is declining and the rate of disease is increasing? On any given day 95% of the population in North America will not consume foods which provide basic nutrients required for good health. On that same day 75% of the population will consume foods that will contribute to a decline in our health… Continue

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