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Natural Doesn’t Always Mean Harmless
Vitamin Retailer spoke with Vancouver-Washington-based physician Zora De Grandpre, ND, who serves as an expert for Leafreport, which is based in Tel Aviv, Israel, www.leafreport.com. She offers some general cautionaries for retailers and the natural products industry, at large: While most natural products have mild to moderate adverse effects, it is obviously incorrect to think ...
Does Having Children Age Women?
In a new study, researchers examined several different measures that represent how a woman’s body is aging and found that people who had few births—or many—seemed to have aged quicker than those women who had given birth three or four times. However, these effects were found only after a woman had gone through menopause. “Our ...
New Study “Stuns” Arthritis Sufferers
For the millions of people affected by arthritis and other joint pain in the United States, pain management is an ongoing battle. A recent study by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), revealed encouraging results for managing moderate to severe osteoarthritis: it literally stunned participant studies. According to the Science Daily article, “Novel Technique ...
Brain Teaser: Study Seeks Adulterated Products
The stated objective of a study published recently in the journal Neurology is “To identify the presence of unapproved pharmaceutical drugs in over-the-counter dietary supplements marketed to improve memory and cognitive function.” And its findings were supportive of that objective. It also caused a kerfuffle and the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) responded. In the ...
Home Cooked Meals Are Best for Healthy Blood Sugar
Research from the Nurses Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-Up Study asked 99,000 men and women about their lunch and dinner habits for more than 30 years. People who reported eating at least two meals at home each day had an average 13 percent lower risk of getting type 2 diabetes compared to people who ...
CBD News
There is a lot happening with CBD products. Here is a roundup of recent news that collectively illustrate the liveliness and vigor of the space. Kadenwood, LLC, a California-based consumer seed-to-shelf CBD company, announced the acquisition of EcoGen Laboratories, the leading global manufacturer and supplier of hemp-derived CBD materials and formulations. The deal effectively establishes ...
Zinc Could Help as Non-antibiotic Treatment for UTIs
New details about the role of zinc in our immune system could help the development of new non-antibiotic treatment strategies for bacterial diseases, such as urinary tract infections (UTIs). UTIs are one of the most common bacterial infections worldwide with about 150 million cases each year and can lead to serious conditions, such as kidney ...
Too Much Salt Weakens the Immune System
A high-salt diet is not only bad for one’s blood pressure, but also for the immune system. This is the conclusion of a current study under the leadership of the University Hospital Bonn in Germany. Mice fed a high-salt diet were found to suffer from much more severe bacterial infections. Human volunteers who consumed an ...
Do Children Spread COVID-19?
Two recent studies have different conclusions about children spreading COVID-19. First, a commentary published in the journal Pediatrics, concludes that children infrequently transmit COVID-19 to each other or to adults and that many schools, provided they follow appropriate social distancing guidelines and take into account rates of transmission in their community, can and should reopen ...
Interest in Natural Health Products for Humans Spills Into Pet Retail
A study by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) conducted two decades ago which indicated that complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use was on the rise. Since then, interest and participation in CAM therapies, such as prayer, deep breathing, meditation, yoga, and more have become increasingly prevalent in many American’s lives. As more documentaries ...
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