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Differences in vitamin D status between countries in young adults and the elderly - 0 views

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    Differences in vitamin D status between countries in young adults and the elderly. McKenna MJ. Am J Med. 1992 Jul;93(1):69-77. PMID: 1385673 PURPOSE: To compare vitamin D status between countries in young adults and in the elderly. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Reports on vitamin D status (as assessed by serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D) from 1971 to 1990 were reviewed. Studies were grouped according to geographic regions: North America (including Canada and the United States); Scandinavia (including Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden); and Central and Western Europe (including Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom). RESULTS: Vitamin D status varies with the season in young adults and in the elderly, and is lower during the winter in Europe than in both North America and Scandinavia. Oral vitamin D intake is lower in Europe than in both North America and Scandinavia. Hypovitaminosis D and related abnormalities in bone chemistry are most common in elderly residents in Europe but are reported in all elderly populations. CONCLUSIONS: The vitamin D status in young adults and the elderly varies widely with the country of residence. Adequate exposure to summer sunlight is the essential means to ample supply, but oral intake augmented by both fortification and supplementation is necessary to maintain baseline stores. All countries should adopt a fortification policy. It seems likely that the elderly would benefit additionally from a daily supplement of 10 micrograms of vitamin D.
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The roles of calcium and vitamin D in skeletal health: an evolutionary perspective - Ro... - 0 views

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    Robert P. Heaney is John A. Creighton University Professor, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Hominid evolution took place in an environment (equatorial East Africa) that provided a superabundance of both calcium and vitamin D, the first in available foods and the second through conversion of 7-dehydrocholesterol to pre-vitamin D in the skin, a reaction catalysed by the intense solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Seemingly as a consequence, the evolving human physiology incorporated provisions to prevent the potential of toxic excesses of both nutrients. For vitamin D the protection was of two sorts: skin pigmentation absorbed the critical UV wavelengths and thereby limited dermal synthesis of cholecalciferol; and slow delivery of vitamin D from the skin into the bloodstream left surplus vitamin in the skin, where continuing sun exposure led to its photolytic degradation to inert compounds. For calcium, the adaptation consisted of very inefficient calcium absorption, together with poor to absent systemic conservation. The latter is reflected in unregulated dermal calcium losses, a high sensitivity of renal obligatory calcium loss to other nutrients in the diet and relatively high quantities of calcium in the digestive secretions. Today, chimpanzees in the original hominid habitat have diets with calcium nutrient densities in the range of 2 to 2.5 mmol per 100 kcal, and hunter-gatherer humans in Africa, South America and New Guinea still have diets very nearly as high in calcium (1.75 to 2 mmol per 100 kcal) (Eaton and Nelson, 1991). With energy expenditure of 3 000 kcal per day (a fairly conservative estimate for a contemporary human doing physical work), such diets would provide substantially in excess of 50 mmol of calcium per day. By contrast, median intake in women in North America and in many European countries today is under 15 mmol per day. Two factors altered the primitive situation: the migration of humans from Africa to higher latitude
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Vitamin D Deficiency | Special Topics | Health Professionals | International Osteoporos... - 0 views

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    The review, published in Osteoporosis International, provides a global perspective of vitamin D status across different regions of the world and identifies common and significant determinants of hypovitaminosis D. Six regions of the world were reviewed-Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Latin America, North America, and Oceania-through a survey of published literature.
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Stevia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    Stevia is a genus of about 240 species of herbs and shrubs in the sunflower family (Asteraceae), native to subtropical and tropical South America and Central America. The species Stevia rebaudiana, commonly known as sweetleaf, sweet leaf, sugarleaf, or simply stevia, is widely grown for its sweet leaves. As a sweetener and sugar substitute, stevia's taste has a slower onset and longer duration than that of sugar, although some of its extracts may have a bitter or licorice-like aftertaste at high concentrations.
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Guava - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    "Guavas are plants in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae) genus Psidium, which contains about 100 species of tropical shrubs and small trees. They are native to Mexico, Central America and northern South America. Most likely naturally spreading (by means of ocean drifting) to parts of the Caribbean and some parts of North Africa, guavas are now cultivated and naturalized throughout the tropics, and due to growing demand they are also grown in some subtropical regions."
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Quinoa nutrition and recipes - 0 views

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    Quinoa is classified as one of the oldest cereals in the world. It comes from South America, and people started to cultivate it in the area of Andes. The ancient civilization Inka knew about this food and used it.
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Zinc, wheat Germ as a source and its other benefits - 0 views

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    Typically, grains, such as whole wheat tiniest seed, really are a delicious supply of insoluble dietary fiber. In the event that you're actually sensation supported, it's the actual insoluble dietary fiber that'll become the broom as well as drive away everything waste materials. Getting lots of insoluble dietary fiber in what you eat retains a person normal, even though it's essential to pay attention to your general dietary fiber suggestion, not only obtaining a particular kind of dietary fiber. For any typical two, 000-calorie diet plan, you'll require twenty-eight gr associated with dietary fiber, that fulfills the actual fourteen gr for each each and every 1, 000-caloirie increment suggestion, based on the Nutritional Recommendations with regard to People in america, 2010. Discovering a method to eat simply one-quarter mug associated with whole wheat tiniest seed every single day, which supplies 3. 8 gr associated with complete dietary fiber, occupies almost fourteen % of the suggestion.
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Funding Food Science and Nutrition Research: Financial Conflicts and Scientific Integri... - 0 views

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    Funding food science and nutrition research: financial conflicts and scientific integrity. Rowe S, Alexander N, Clydesdale FM, Applebaum RS, Atkinson S, Black RM, Dwyer JT, Hentges E, Higley NA, Lefevre M, Lupton JR, Miller SA, Tancredi DL, Weaver CM, Woteki CE, Wedral E; International Life Sciences Institute North America Working Group on Guiding. J Nutr. 2009 Jun;139(6):1051-3. Epub 2009 Apr 29. PMID: 19403704 doi:10.3945/jn.109.105668
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Funding food science and nutrition research: financial conflicts and scientific integri... - 0 views

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    Funding food science and nutrition research: financial conflicts and scientific integrity. Rowe S, Alexander N, Clydesdale F, Applebaum R, Atkinson S, Black R, Dwyer J, Hentges E, Higley N, Lefevre M, Lupton J, Miller S, Tancredi D, Weaver C, Woteki C, Wedral E; International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) North America Working Group on Guiding Principles. Nutr Rev. 2009 May;67(5):264-72. PMID: 19386030 DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2009.00188.x
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Dietary Recommendations for Vitamin D: a Critical Need for Functional End Points to Est... - 0 views

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    Dietary recommendations for vitamin D: a critical need for functional end points to establish an estimated average requirement. Whiting SJ, Calvo MS. J Nutr. 2005 Feb;135(2):304-9. Review. PMID: 15671232 In summary, vitamin D has emerged as a critical nutrient for which there is a compelling health need to establish adequate dietary guidelines in North America and worldwide given the increasing evidence of vitamin D deficiency and insufficient links to risk of chronic disease. We strongly argue that now there are enough data to consider setting an estimated average requirement for vitamin D and to recognize the crucial need for more research to determine the role of vitamin D in noncalciotropic functions and prevention of chronic diseases
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12 Great Benefits of Carob - 0 views

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    If you live in Europe or America, finding this beneficial fruit may not be easy, as carob is not cultivated in those regions. Carob, or "Ceratonia Siliqua", is cultivated in the Mediterranean region.
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Taste Delicious Mexican Food - 0 views

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    The cuisine of Mexico is pleasing to many palettes. Run now to your nearest taqueria and grab one of these yummy foods.
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The Paleo Diet | Paleolithic Diet, Paleo Diet, Caveman Diet, Hunter Gatherer Diet, and ... - 0 views

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    The Paleo Diet is a way of eating in the modern age that best mimics the nutrition of our evolutionary and genetic heritage - the ancestral, Paleolithic diet. For millions of years our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate combinations of lean meat, seafood, plants, fruit, and nuts. But today in America, more than 70% of our dietary calories come from foods that our Paleolithic (Stone Age) ancestors rarely if ever ate ... and that modern humans are not genetically adapted to eat. The result is epidemic levels of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, arthritis, acne, gastrointestinal disease, and more. Professor Loren Cordain is widely acknowledged as a leading expert on the diet of our Paleolithic ancestors.
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Açaí Palm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    The açaí palm or aqai (Euterpe oleracea) is a species of palm tree in the genus Euterpe cultivated for their fruit and superior hearts of palm. Its name comes from the European adaptation of the Tupian word ïwasa'i, '[fruit that] cries or expels water'. Global demand for the fruit has expanded rapidly in recent years, and açaí is now cultivated for that purpose primarily. The closely-related species Euterpe edulis (jucara) is now predominantly used for hearts of palm.[citation needed] Eight species are native to Central and South America, from Belize southward to Brazil and Peru, growing mainly in swamps and floodplains. Açaí palms are tall, slender palms growing to 15-30 meters, with pinnate leaves up to 3 meters long.
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GrassrootsHealth | Vitamin D Action - Vitamin D Scientists' Call to Action Statement - 0 views

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    "We are aware of substantial scientific evidence supporting the role of vitamin D in prevention of cancer. It has been reasonably established that adequate serum vitamin D metabolite levels are associated with substantially lower incidence rates of several types of cancer, including those of the breast, colon, and ovary, and other sites. We have concluded that the vitamin D status of most individuals in North America will need to be greatly improved for substantial reduction in incidence of cancer. Epidemiological studies have shown that higher vitamin D levels are also associated with lower risk of Type I diabetes in children and of multiple sclerosis. Several studies have found that markers of higher vitamin D levels are associated with lower incidence and severity of influenza and several other infectious diseases."
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(VIDEO) Shedding light on the vitamin D deficiency 'crisis' - thebahamasweekly.com - 1 views

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    (VIDEO) Shedding light on the vitamin D deficiency 'crisis' By GrassRootsHealth.com Oct 11, 2009 - 4:49:39 PM San Diego, CA - Can vitamin D prevent 80% of the incidence of breast cancer? What is its affect on colon cancer and other major illnesses? These questions and more will be addressed when some of the most prominent vitamin D researchers in North America participate in the " Diagnosis & Treatment of Vitamin D Deficiency" seminar presented by GrassrootsHealth at the University of Toronto on Tuesday, November 3 from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. GrassrootsHealth is the founder of D*action, an international public health project whose goal is to solve the vitamin D deficiency epidemic. GrassrootsHealth and D*action work with over 30 scientists, institutions and individuals committed to educate, test, and study vitamin D levels worldwide. At the conference, a group of physicians and researchers in the vitamin D field will discuss vitamin D's role in the potential prevention of many diseases, including breast cancer, colon cancer, type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis, the ultimate reduction in the incidence of infectious diseases and the economic impact of such action
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Health & Nutrition | Pregnancy | Raspberry Leaf Tea | Eumom - 0 views

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    Native to North America, raspberry leaf has been used by the indigenous people, including the Cherokee and Iroquois of North America, for many generations. Used as an infusion of the raspberry leaves, it has been used primarily in the area of women's health, especially during pregnancy and breast-feeding.
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Benefits Of Acai Berry For Human Body - 0 views

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    Acai berry is an inch long red and purple fruit. It comes from acai palm tree, which is found in Central and South America. It helps to keep a person away from diseases related to oxidative stress like cardiac failure and cancer.
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