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Matti Narkia

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
Matti Narkia

Proanthocyanidin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    "Proanthocyanidin (PA or PAC), also known as procyanidin, oligomeric proanthocyanidin (OPC), leukocyanidin, leucoanthocyanin and condensed tannins, is a class of flavanols. Proanthocyanidins are essentially polymer chains of flavonoids such as catechins.[1] One was discovered in 1936 by Professor Jacques Masquelier and called Vitamin P, although this name did not gain official category status and has since fallen out of usage. It was Masquelier who first developed techniques for the extraction of proanthocyanidins from certain plant species. Proanthocyanidins have been sold as nutritional and therapeutic supplements in Europe since the 1980s, but their introduction to the United States market has been relatively recent. In the human body, they might act as antioxidants (free radical scavengers).[citation needed] OPCs may help protect against the effects of internal and environmental stresses such as cigarette smoking and pollution, as well as supporting normal body metabolic processes. The effects may include depressing blood fat, emolliating blood vessels, lowering blood pressure, preventing blood vessel scleroses, dropping blood viscidity and preventing thrombus formation [18]. Additionally, studies have shown that OPCs may prevent cardiovascular diseases by counteracting the negative effects of high cholesterol on the heart and blood vessels. Pycnogenol® is the name of such an OPCs commercial formulation. OPCs are available from fresh grapes, grape juice, and red wine. Although in milligrams per ounce red wine may contain more OPCs than red grape juice, red grape juice contains more OPCs per average serving size. An 8 ounce serving of grape juice averages 124 milligrams OPCs, while a 5 ounce serving of red wine averages 91 milligrams.[19][20] Many other foods and beverages also contain high amounts of OPCs, but very few come close to the levels found in red grape seeds and skins (which readily disperse into grape juice when crushed)
Matti Narkia

Dr. Joe's E-News - A Diabetes Newsletter: East German Infants Taking Vitamin D - 0 views

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    "From 1955 to 1990, all infants in East Germany received 600,000 IU of Vitamin D every three months for a total of 3,600,000 IU at age 18 months. With the 400 IU/day recommendation of the American Pediatric Association in mind, I ran across this amazing paper while surfing Medline for Vitamin D. According to this paper, all infants in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) received dangerously high doses of Vitamin D every three months in their doctors office. The policy was in place for 35 years. The first 600,000 IU dose was given at three months and then every three months until the child was 18 months of age. This works out to an average of 6,000 IU per day (actually, for several technical reasons it is not equivalent) for 18 months. The authors collected blood before the dose and then 2 weeks after the quarterly dose to obtain 25(OH)D, 1,25(OH)D, and calcium levels on a total of 43 infants. Before the first dose, at 3 months of age, the average infant was extremely deficient (median 25(OH)D of 7 ng/ml). Two weeks after the first dose the average 25(OH)D level was 120 ng/ml, the second dose 170 ng/ml, the third dose, 180 ng/ml, the fourth dose, 144 ng/ml, the fifth dose, 110 ng/ml and after the sixth and final dose, 3.6 million total units, at age 18 months, the children had mean levels of 100 ng/ml. That is, by the 15 and 18 month doses, the children were beginning to effectively handle these massive doses. The highest level recorded in any of the 43 infants was 408 ng/ml at age 9 months, two weeks after the third 600,000 IU dose. Thirty-four percent of the infants had at least one episode of hypercalcemia but only 3 had an elevated serum 1,25(OH)D. The authors reported that all the infants appeared healthy, even the infant with a level of 408 ng/ml, that is, no clinical toxicity was noted in any of these infants."
kevin Edward

More Ezine: Calorie Intake for Men - 0 views

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    When calculating how many calories you need in a given day, it is important to remember that the calorie intake for men will be different than the amount of calories women need. There are a few reasons for this, but the most important is weight. The average woman weighs quite a bit less than the average man. It is an easily observed difference between men and women that has some important consequences with regards to calorie needs. A 125 lb woman that gets an average amount of exercise throughout the day will need about 2,000 calories.
Matti Narkia

Average European 'is overweight' - BBC NEWS | Health - 0 views

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    The Maltese and the Greeks are the heavyweights of Europe, figures from the European Commission reveal. The Italians and French the most trim, while the average Briton - like the average European - is slightly over the ideal weight. Obesity, which is linked to a range of health problems, including heart disease, is a growing problem across much of the developed world.
Matti Narkia

Effects of Above Average Summer Sun Exposure on Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Calcium A... - 0 views

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    Barger-Lux MJ, Heaney RP. Effects of above average summer sun exposure on serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and calcium absorption.J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2002 Nov;87(11):4952-6.PMID: 12414856 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Matti Narkia

Vitamin D and Cancer Mini-Symposium: The Risk of Additional Vitamin D - 0 views

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    Vitamin D and cancer mini-symposium: the risk of additional vitamin D. Vieth R. Ann Epidemiol. 2009 Jul;19(7):441-5. Epub 2009 Apr 11. Review. PMID: 19364661 Conclusion The results of well-conducted trials of vitamin D lead to the conclusion that the current U.S. National Academy of Sciences-Institute of Medicine upper limit for vitamin D intake of 2000IU per day 1, 37 is excessively conservative. That intake would raise serum 25(OH)D by an average of about 50 nmol/L (20 ng/mL), well within the safe range of serum 25(OH)D concentrations that extends to 500 nmol/L (200 ng/mL). Intake of 4,000IU per day would raise serum 25(OH)D by an average of about 100 nmol/L (40 ng/mL). Even prolonged physiologic-replacement intake of 10,000IU per day of vitamin D3 would pose no known risk of adverse effects in virtually all adults.
Matti Narkia

Whole Health Source: The Tokelau Island Migrant Study: Weight Gain - 0 views

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    Friday, January 16, 2009 The Tokelau Island Migrant Study: Weight Gain Between 1968 and 1982, Tokelauans in nearly all age groups gained weight, roughly 5 kilograms (11 pounds) on average. They also became slightly taller, but not enough to offset the gain in weight. By 1980-82, migrants to New Zealand had become especially heavy, with all age groups weighing more than non-migrants by about 5 kg (11 lb) on average, and 10 kg (22 lb) more than Tokelauans did in 1968.
Matti Narkia

High salt intake boosts stroke, CVD risk - theheart.org - 0 views

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    "November 25, 2009 | Susan Jeffrey Naples, Italy - A new meta-analysis confirms that high salt intake is associated with increased risks of stroke and total cardiovascular disease (CVD) [1]. The pooled relative risk showed that an average difference of about 5 g of salt per day was associated with a 23% increased risk of stroke, the researchers report, and a 17% increase in CVD risk. The average habitual salt intake in most Western countries is 10 g per day, double the level currently recommended by the World Health Organization. "Given that the case-fatality rate for stroke is estimated at one in three, and that for total cardiovascular disease at one in five, a 23% reduction in the rate of stroke and a 17% overall reduction in the rate of cardiovascular disease attributable to a reduction in population salt intake could avert some one and a quarter million deaths from stroke, and almost three million deaths from cardiovascular disease each year," the researchers, with lead author Dr Pasquale Strazzullo (University of Naples Medical School, Italy), conclude. Moreover, because of some imprecision in salt-intake measurements in these cohort studies, the actual effects are likely to be underestimated, they add. The study was published online November 24, 2009 in the British Medical Journal."
Matti Narkia

The JELIS Trial - The Heart Scan Blog: - 0 views

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    "The Japan eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) Lipid Intervention Study (JELIS) is a clinical trial that all Track Your Plaquers should know about. This enormous trial followed a simple design: Japanese men, between 40-75 years, and Japanese postmenopausal women aged
Matti Narkia

High Doses of Vitamin D Cut MS Relapses - 0 views

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    "April 28, 2009 (Seattle) -- High doses of vitamin D dramatically cut the relapse rate in people with multiple sclerosis, a study shows. Sixteen percent of 25 people with multiple sclerosis (MS) given an average of 14,000 international units (IU) of vitamin D a day for a year suffered relapses, says Jodie Burton, MD, a neurologist at the University of Toronto. In contrast, close to 40% of 24 MS patients who took an average of 1,000 IU a day -- the amount recommended by many MS specialists -- relapsed, she says. Also, people taking high-dose vitamin D suffered 41% fewer relapses than the year before the study began, compared with 17% of those taking typical doses. People taking high doses of vitamin D did not suffer any significant side effects, Burton tells WebMD."
Matti Narkia

Vitamin D and depressive symptoms in women during the winter: A pilot study - Appl Nurs... - 0 views

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    Vitamin D and depressive symptoms in women during the winter: a pilot study. Shipowick CD, Moore CB, Corbett C, Bindler R. Appl Nurs Res. 2009 Aug;22(3):221-5. PMID: 19616172 doi:10.1016/j.apnr.2007.08.001 ESULTS: Vitamin D supplementation was associated not only with an increase in the serum D levels by an average of 27 ng/ml but also with a decline in the BDI-II scores of an average of 10 points. DISCUSSION: This study suggests that supplemental vitamin D3 reduces depressive symptoms.
Matti Narkia

Vitamin D insufficiency: no recommended dietary allowance exists for this nutrient -- V... - 0 views

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    Vieth R, Fraser D. Vitamin D insufficiency: no recommended dietary allowance exists for this nutrient. CMAJ. 2002 Jun 11;166(12):1541-2. PMID: 12074121 In fact, current recommendations for vitamin D are not designed to ensure anything. They are simply based on the old, default strategy for setting a nutritional guideline, which is to recommend an amount of nutrient similar to what healthy people are eating. This approach underlies the circular logic behind a familiar refrain about nutrition: "If you eat a good diet, you won't need supplements." By this logic, the answer to the question, "How much nutrient do you need?" is, "Whatever healthy people happen to be eating." The essential point, lost in the confusing terminology of modern nutrient recommendations, is that a recommended daily allowance (RDA) does not yet exist for vitamin D. Instead, the recommendations for it are referred to as "adequate intake" (AI).12,13 The AI for young adults (5 µg or 200 IU) was chosen to approximate twice the average vitamin D intake reported by 52 young women in a questionnaire-based study reported from Omaha, Neb., in 1997.13,14 Because the available evidence was acknowledged as weak, the Food and Nutrition Board of the US Institute of Medicine called its recommendation an AI.
Matti Narkia

Incident Invasive Breast Cancer, Geographic Location of Residence, and Reported Average... - 0 views

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    ncident invasive breast cancer, geographic location of residence, and reported average time spent outside. Millen AE, Pettinger M, Freudenheim JL, Langer RD, Rosenberg CA, Mossavar-Rahmani Y, Duffy CM, Lane DS, McTiernan A, Kuller LH, Lopez AM, Wactawski-Wende J. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009 Feb;18(2):495-507. Epub 2009 Feb 3. PMID: 19190147 doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0652 In conclusion, region of residence and geographic solar irradiance are not consistently related to risk of breast cancer and may not be sufficient proxy measures for sunlight/vitamin D exposure. The observed association between time spent outside and breast cancer risk support the hypothesis that vitamin D may protect against breast cancer.
Management Health Solutions Inc

Webinar: Focusing on the Big Picture of Your Supply Chain Yields Compelling Financial R... - 0 views

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    Continuous changes in the healthcare reimbursement criteria require executives across the industry to focus on enterprise-wide changes that have a positive effect on supply chain savings. It's a complex problem and it's easy to get distracted on one issue when having the ability to see a clear BIG picture of your entire supply chain is what can lead to the most dramatic results and return on investments. Register for MHS' webinar on November 01 (2:00pm EST) to learn about how their customers experience an average 4:1 ROI with continual savings into the millions and a positive financial impact to their bottom line through inventory reduction, avoidance of obsolete and expired inventory, improved charge capture for each patient, and physician preference card optimization. Click on http://bit.ly/UvD3nq Presenters *Michael Ferris: Co-Founder, MHS with over 30 years of supply chain management experience *Steve Basiliere: Former Director of Supply Chain Services at Saints Medical Center, Lowell, MA *Art Kozyrovicius: Finance and Procurement Systems Support at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY WHY ATTEND? Join a unique discussion with healthcare supply chain thought leaders and understand how to drive significant and sustainable supply chain operational improvements. Get a jump on making an immediate and positive impact on your bottom line as you head into 2013. Register by clicking on http://bit.ly/UvD3nq Note: Event will be online, through WebEx Please Register at http://bit.ly/UvD3nq
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Understanding Teeth Development - 0 views

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    The average three-year old child should have twenty deciduousor baby teeth.
Willow O'Donnell

Buy And Sell Your Medical Equipment And Always Stay Supplied - scribd - 0 views

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    Buying medical supplies should be done in specialized stores which will be bound to sell you only the safest and sterilized equipment. Medical supplies nowadays include much more than your average first aid kit.
Willow O'Donnell

Buy And Sell Your Medical Equipment And Always Stay Supplied - 0 views

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    Buying medical supplies should be done in specialized stores which will be bound to sell you only the safest and sterilized equipment. Medical supplies nowadays include much more than your average first aid kit.
Willow O'Donnell

We Purchase Your IV pumps and Medical Equipment - 0 views

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    Buying medical supplies should be done in specialized stores which will be bound to sell you only the safest and sterilized equipment. Medical supplies nowadays include much more than your average first aid kit.
Matti Narkia

Despite Sun Exposure, Some Still Vitamin D Deficient - 0 views

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    According to a study conducted by University of Wisconsin researchers, even people who are regularly exposed to sunlight can have low vitamin D levels.\n\nThe study focused on subjects who lived in sunny Hawaii and spent an average of 11.1 hours in the sun each week. (None of the participants in the study used any type of sunscreen.) Despite the exposure, 51 percent of participants were found to be deficient in vitamin D.
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