Tag Archives: vitamins
Consumer Reports on Healthy Hearts: Eat Fruits, Skip Vitamin Supplements [Healthy Bytes]
photo credit: kansasliberal Eating Fabulous points to this Consumer Reports article on designing a heart-healthy diet. Advice offered includes recommended fruits and vegetables to load up on, designing a diet around the “Mediterranean eating plan,” and whether “heart-healthy supplements” actually … Continue reading
Posted in Health News
Tagged consumer-reports, Diet, Food, fruit, health, healthy, supplements, vegetables, vitamins
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Multivitamins may cause “aggressive and fatal” prostate cancer
I’m not too hip on multivitamins. Not only do we take on faith what’s in them, we take on faith they’re healthy. My own personal opinion – get your vitamins the way they’re meant to be processed, from food. There’s … Continue reading
Posted in Medicine
Tagged cancer, fast-food, fatbloggers, Fatblogging, Medicine, multivitamins, prostate, vitamins
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Taking advantage of alli/orlistat
What do you think about alli? Take my poll. I’ve been thinking a lot about GSK‘s orlistat/alli since the FDA released their approval last week, and I believe alli is only half of GSK’s plan for orlistat. The other half? Multi-vitamins. I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Medicine, Weight Loss
Tagged alli, fda, fitness, gsk, health, Medicine, orlistat, roche, vitamins, Weight Loss, xenical
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Is your daily vitamin killing you?
A vitamin a day may do more harm than good (@ msnbc) MSNBC points to a study on multivitamins performed by ConsumerLab (an independent tester of nutrition products, visit their about page for more) on 39 products, 21 of which are … Continue reading
Posted in Diet, Dieting, Medicine
Tagged Diet, Dieting, fitness, health, Medicine, multivitamins, vitamins, Weight Loss
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