Parents, leave the multivitamins in the bottle
By Carolyn Sax, MD, a primary care physician with the Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Boston Children’s and practices at Hyde Park Pediatrics in Hyde Park and Milton, Mass.
Parents often ask me whether I recommend multivitamins for their children, and in most situations I say no. This takes a lot of people by surprise. Vitamins sound like such a good thing, right?
The answer is actually somewhat complicated. Foods that are naturally rich in vitamins are definitely a good thing, and many scientific studies have shown the benefits of eating a diet rich in nutritious foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains,...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - May 20, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: All posts Carolyn Sax healthy eating healthy eating for kids healthy eating for the whole family vitamins Source Type: news
Edible flowers not proven to prevent cancer
Conclusion
The current study has identified the levels of phenolic compounds in certain edible flowers. These compounds have antioxidant compounds, and antioxidants have been suggested to have various health benefits, including fighting cancer and heart disease. However, the current study has not assessed whether eating these flowers could have effects on human health, or at what levels they would need to be consumed to have any effects.
A Cochrane systematic review pooled data on the effects of antioxidant supplements tested in clinical trials and found no evidence of beneficial effects on survival in healthy people or p...
Source: NHS News Feed - April 23, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer Food/diet Source Type: news
ANH Feature: Vitamin D and mainstream medicine’s ‘magic bullet thinking’
BMJ editorial casts a harsh light on flawed mainstream view of nutrients (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - April 9, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: antioxidant beta-carotene BMJ British Heart Foundation British Medical Journal Edzard Ernst europe folate international magic bullet sunlight vitamin D Vitamin E Source Type: news
ANH-Int News Alerts
Truth revealed about wheat and fluoride, GM material found in non-GM, modified gut bacteria, proposal for nanomaterial labelling rejected, and saturated fat good (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - March 19, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: anovulatory infertility attention deficit hyperactivity disorder autism beta-carotene BHF Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation British Heart Foundation butter calorie coeliac disease cream diabetes drinking water E. coli erectile Source Type: news
Nanotechnology so good you can eat it
Electroednics that dissolve in the environment or are even edible are the answer to the ever-growing problem of e-waste If you could safely give your old mobile for lunch to your dog, you would not only save space in those drawers full of old electronic junk at home. E-waste is a much wider problem: almost half of the 500,000 tonnes of household hazardous waste produced in the UK in 2004 were electronic products and plastics. And the numbers have likely increased exponentially since then.In the last few years, the idea of electronics that can be literally eaten – or at least can safely dissolve in the body or in the...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 17, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Michele Catanzaro Tags: Nano futures theguardian.com Nanotechnology Features Waste Source Type: news
Trials in PubMed Linking to Systematic Reviews
PubMed Health’s curated collection of systematic reviews now has an important new role: enabling PubMed users to go straight from a clinical trial to systematic reviews that have considered it. Visitors to records of many thousands of trials will now see a new section, called a portlet, to the right. It will show links to systematic reviews in PubMed that have cited that trial. For example, people visiting the NIH-funded Women’s Health Study publication on beta-carotene supplementation would see the “Cited by 9 systematic reviews” portlet pictured here:
The 9 systematic reviews are identified by Pub...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - March 5, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Can Vitamin E and selenium supplements increase prostate cancer risk?
Complex picture emerges from SELECT that suggests caution over form and dosage of supplements for some groups of men (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - February 26, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: alpha-tocopherol antioxidant Beta Carotene biopsy cancer europe FDA functional medicine international JAMA JNCI Journal of American Medical Association minerals NPC Nutritional Prevention of Cancer SELECT selenium supplem Source Type: news
Healthy Adults Shouldn't Take Vitamin E, Beta Carotene: Expert Panel
Jury still out on whether multivitamins prevent cancer or heart disease, task force says
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Cancer, Dietary Supplements, Heart Diseases--Prevention (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - February 25, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
USPSTF: Not Enough Proof of CVD Benefit With MultivitaminsUSPSTF: Not Enough Proof of CVD Benefit With Multivitamins
While there was not enough evidence to assess the overall risks and benefits, the authors recommend against the use of beta-carotene or vitamin E for CVD or cancer prevention. Heartwire (Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - February 25, 2014 Category: Cardiology Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
USPSTF: Evidence Insufficient That Vitamins Prevent CancerUSPSTF: Evidence Insufficient That Vitamins Prevent Cancer
Updated UPSTF recommendations against supplementing with beta-carotene or vitamin E to help prevent cancer or heart disease. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines - February 25, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Hematology-Oncology News Source Type: news
Healthy Adults Shouldn't Take Vitamin E, Beta Carotene: Expert Panel
Jury still out on whether multivitamins prevent cancer or heart disease, task force says (Source: Cancercompass News: Other Cancer)
Source: Cancercompass News: Other Cancer - February 25, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Healthy Adults Shouldn’t Take Vitamin E, Beta Carotene: Expert Panel
Jury still out on whether multivitamins prevent cancer or heart disease, task force says (Source: The Doctors Lounge - Oncology)
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Oncology - February 25, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: webmaster at doctorslounge.com Tags: Cardiology, Neurology, Oncology, Nutrition, News, Source Type: news
Some vitamin supplements raise risk of cancer in men, research shows
Clinical trials show high levels of the mineral Selenium can raise chances of developing high-grade cancer by 91%Men have been warned not to take a pair of popular vitamin and mineral supplements after research showed they can dramatically increase the risk of life-threatening prostate cancer.Overdosing on the mineral selenium by taking supplements raised the chances of developing high-grade cancer by 91%, scientists found.Vitamin E pills also boosted the risk of aggressive cancer, more than doubling it for men lacking selenium.The researchers believe selenium can turn toxic when present in the body at excessively high lev...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 22, 2014 Category: Science Tags: theguardian.com Health Medical research & wellbeing Society Cancer Life and style Men's health Editorial Prostate cancer Science Source Type: news
Nitrogen management studied in greenhouse pepper production
Bell pepper was used in a study designed to reduce environmental pollution by increasing nitrogen use efficiency. Nitrogen was applied at four different concentrations to two pepper cultivars. Results showed that nitrogen treatments had no significant negative impacts on fruit physical or chemical quality, including sugar content and acidity. Reduced nitrogen applications did not affect nutritional components of the peppers such as beta-carotene and lycopene content, nor did they reduce antioxidant activity. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 31, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
What Foods Contain Carotene?
Discussion
Carotenemia is a common problem in infants as carotene containing foods are often the first solid foods for infants. This is a benign problem and families can be reassured. It resolves in weeks to months depending on the diet. Carotenes are not synthesized by humans and are obtained through the diet. Carotenes are ingested as amorphous solids and crystals and breakdown of cellular membranes increases the bioavailability of the carotenes. Breakdown of the walls is often mechanical (e.g. grinding up of the food), but absorption is also affected through pancreatic lipases, thyroid hormone, bile acids, dietary fiber...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - January 27, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
