vitamin and mineral supplement
vitamin and mineral supplement
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by Steve Smith - 2007-06-07
It was observed centuries ago that sailors deprived of fresh fruit and vegetables on long voyages became ill with scurvy. Now of course, not many of us today have to live on salt-preserved meat and d...
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by Steve Smith - 2007-06-26
It would be a great pity if recent media scare stories highlighting the supposed risks of vitamin E supplementation prevented people, particularly the elderly, from ensuring that their diets include a...
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by Steve Smith - 2007-06-27
Since its discovery in 1922 Vitamin E has become generally regarded as one of the body's most powerful, versatile and useful anti-oxidants. And as such its importance should not be underestimated, be...
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by Steve Smith - 2007-06-28
Many benefits of vitamin C have been identified since the consumption of citrus fruit was first recognised as the immediately effective cure and preventative for the scurvy which so dreadfully afflict...
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by Steve Smith - 2007-07-02
It's now several centuries since fresh fruit and vegetables were discovered to be effective in preventing and curing scurvy, and such acute nutritional deficiency diseases are thankfully now extremely...
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by Steve Smith - 2007-07-08
Zinc is one of the many trace minerals required by the body, but the fact that it's required in relatively small amounts should not be allowed to obscure its significance. It's required by the body fo...
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by Steve Smith - 2007-07-22
Selenium is one of those micro-nutrients which although required by the body in only tiny quantities are nevertheless vitally important for the health and well-being of the human organism.There's now ...
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by Steve Smith - 2007-07-23
Vitamin B3, commonly known as niacin or nicotinic acid, is one of the B complex of water soluble vitamins needed by the body every day.In its derivative form of nicotinamide, niacin is required by the...
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by Steve Smith - 2007-07-31
Vitamin A is one of nature's most valuable anti-oxidants, and is also vital for preventing and fighting infection. Well known animal sources are foods such as egg yolks, milk and liver, along with th...
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by Steve Smith - 2007-08-07
"Carotenoids" is the term which describes the large range of more than 600 pigments which give many plants their characteristic red, orange or yellow colouring. Amongst those most commonly found in m...
