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An interesting study from Austria has made a direct link between the benefits of sun bathing and the male libido. Perhaps unsurprisingly it involves raising the levels of vitamin D in males, but that in itself is interesting as it is generally true that most of us feel somewhat friskier if the suns been out. [...]
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By and large people who read information and articles about vitamins and health supplements do so because they are looking for something to use personally. That usually means the person concerned realizes they are in need of some form of supplement that they are not acquiring through their normal diet. Which brings us to the [...]
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Another New Year and, I dare say, millions of people will have promised themselves that they will shed those extra pounds with yet another New Year diet resolution. Making resolutions to diet is all well and good, but how many of us actually stick to them? Meanwhile we all put on more and more weight [...]
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There comes in time in a woman’s life when she will enter the menopause, which can have varying affects from evening time hot flushes to an increase in body weight, depression and even to osteoporosis - a decrease in bone density. In recent years hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has been able to counter the worst [...]
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Here at vitaminsandsupplements we’re all for engaging in the latest discussions on vitamins and health supplements, even if when those discussions try to cast the vitamin and health supplement industry in a bad light. In recent weeks in both printed media and on the internet there has been a lot said about the efficacy of [...]
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Recent reports have been warning us about the dangers of artificial sweeteners not being that much of a healthy option to using sugar itself. Apparently they can cause us to absorb more calories than sugar; so exactly what might the healthy options to using refined sugar or artificial sweeteners be?
Use honey instead.
I’m not personally the [...]
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With so many health and vitamin supplements so easily available over the internet, it has really only been a question of time before the potential dangers of taking some supplements whilst at the same time being treated for serious illnesses, like cancers, was highlighted. Recently doctors from St Luke’s Roosevelt hospital and the Mailman School [...]
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Whilst I love conspiracy theories on the internet, they’re such good gossip when having a drink with friends, the one I’ve just read trying to make a link between taking vitamin pills and mad cow disease on the internet - is really quite hilarious. The article was from a blog written by someone trying desperately [...]
A rather astonishing report this week claims that - taking vitamins C and E after a gym or exercise session can actually work against your body benefiting from the exercise!
Exercise and body regulation.
Apparently the report, from the National Academy of Sciences, was looking into the effectiveness of physical exercise on the body’s energy regulation; and [...]
At face value the headline for an article I read this week stating that - “Massive study casts doubt on health benefits of multivitamins“, has the inference that you’re wasting your time taking vitamin supplements. However, if you read the whole article you can become quite confused as to whether or not it is supporting [...]
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