Global Vitamin D Maps In Development As Concern Increases Over Widespread Vitamin D Deficiency In Asia
Bone health experts attending the 1st Asia-Pacific Osteoporosis Meeting in Singapore this week have flagged vitamin D deficiency as a major concern in the region, particularly in South Asia where the problem is especially severe and widespread across the entire population. Dr…
December 16, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: across-the-entire, major-concern, nutritional counseling, osteoporosis, pacific-osteoporosis, region, south, south-asia, the-region, week
Sticking to dietary recommendations would save 33,000 lives a year in the UK
If everyone in the UK ate their “five a day,” and cut their dietary salt and unhealthy fat intake to recommended levels, 33,000 deaths could be prevented or delayed every year, reveals new research.
December 16, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: delayed-every, dietary, on call diets, oncalldiets, prevented-or-delayed, reveals-new, their-dietary, unhealthy-fat
Many Dietary Supplements Tainted With Prescription Compounds, Says FDA
A growing number of so called “dietary products” contain compounds which exist only in FDA-approved prescription drugs or closely-related drugs (analogs). In some cases the ingredient is a novel synthetic steroid, which cannot be called a dietary ingredient, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) announced today…
December 16, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: cases-the-ingredient, contain-compounds, diet, dietary-ingredient, dietary-products, fda, growing-number, ingredient, novel-synthetic, some-cases, the-ingredient
