Archive for May, 2008
Vitamin D: The Versatile Vitamin
You may already know that Vitamin D can help prevent the onset of osteoporosis and fractures but for many people this is the extent of what they know about this vitamin. More and more studies are beginning to uncover a number of new benefits related to Vitamin D such as its ability to prevent cancers, [...]
Posted: May 27th, 2008 under Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Vitamin D.
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Various Benefits of Breastfeeding
A recent study has been published stating that children who were breastfed for at least 3 months were discovered to have higher intelligence scores than children who were not breastfed during these crucial years of development. According to the studies from the Archives of General Psychiatry, the breastfed children received better results in overall academics [...]
Posted: May 20th, 2008 under Breastfeeding.
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Can Flavonoids Treat Alzheimer’s disease?
A recent study conducted from the Rashid Laboratory for Developmental Neurobiology at Silver Child Development Center at the University of South Florida is stating their findings regarding the antioxidants known as flavonoids and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease. Published in the Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, an experiment using mice found that the two compounds within flavonoids, [...]
Posted: May 19th, 2008 under Alzheimer's Disease, Flavonoids.
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