Changing trends in herbal supplement use
...ndness in adults), was first added to many popular multivitamins in late 1999 and 2000. Another antioxidant, lycopene, was added to major multivitamins in 2003 as a cancer preventative. "The addition of these supplements to multivitamin products has si...Vitamin B-12 levels linked to bone loss in aging women
...men, simple dietary supplements of vitamin B-12 or multivitamins or dietary modification may slow the rates of bone loss. "A larger, randomized trial would be needed to determine whether treatment with supplemental vitamin B-12 could reduce rates of bone loss in elderly women," notes Dr. Steve Cummings, one of the...Using vitamin E and C supplements together may reduce risk of Alzheimer disease
...n C users reported taking vitamin C supplements or multivitamins containing at least 500 micrograms of ascorbic aci...fied as multivitamin users if they reported taking multivitamins containing lower doses of vitamin E or C. The researchers found the greatest reduction in both pre...Taking vitamin D supplements lowers risk of multiple sclerosis
..., MN Women who take vitamin D supplements through multivitamins are 40 percent less likely to develop multiple sclerosis (MS) than women who do not take supplements, according to a study published in the January 13 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Food is a source o...'Sunshine vitamin' shines in colon study
...ory consumption. Exercise, calcium, folic acid and multivitamins were shown in the study to be marginally beneficial in lowering risk. In looking at factors that increase the risk of colon cancer, the research poses yet another reason to quit smoking: Smoking increased by nearly twofold the risk of having a tumo...Multivitamins improve weight gain patterns during pregnancy in HIV-infected women from Tanzania
...d that, during the third trimester, women who took multivitamins gained significantly more weight than women who di...low weight gain at term. The authors suggest that multivitamins may possibly improve weight loss patterns in pregnant women by slowing the progression of HIV disea...Dietary intake of vitamin E may reduce risk of Parkinson's disease
...the use of specific vitamins and brand and type of multivitamins were asked. By 1998, the end of the study term, a...evidence that use of vitamin E or C supplements or multivitamins reduced the risk of Parkinson's," says study author Shumin Zhang, MD, ScD, Harvard School of Public ...More than 70 percent of adults with cancer use alternative therapies
... alternative, with the exception of one-a-day-type multivitamins because these generally are accepted by mainstream medicine.While the use of alternative medicine is well known among adult cancer patients, until now little has been known about which patients are most likely to use such therapies. Cancer patients w...Vitamin D gets an A+ for treating heart disease
... unclear, he says. Because some other component of multivitamins may have exerted the positive effect found in this study, these results need to be confirmed by future studies that control the type and amount of vitamin D the subjects get, he says. In addition, future studies should examine whether this finding ho...As heart patients flock to alternative medicine, hazards may lurk
...ricans use alternative techniques everything from multivitamins to energy healing and that the annual cost totale...dy techniques. Many patients used both. Even when multivitamins and prayer, two widely used and accepted alternative approaches, were subtracted, 60 percent of all ...Of vasectomies, vitamins and prostate-cancer risk: Hutchinson Center study examines the links
...pplement use, specifically regarding four types of multivitamins (withand without minerals) and six individual nutritional supplements: vitamins A, Cand E, and calcium, iron and zinc. Analysis of the supplement data indicates that fewer than one-third of the menin both groups took daily multivitamins, while 21 per...