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Neural Tube Defects Spina Bifida
1,692 wordsHow Folate Can Help Prevent Birth Defects If you plan to have children some day, here's important information for the future mother-to-be: Think folate now. Folate is a B vitamin found in a variety of foods and added to many vitamin and mineral supplements as folic acid, a synthetic form of folate. Folate is needed both before and in the first weeks of pregnancy and can help reduce the risk of certain serious and common birth defects called neural tube defects, which affect the brain and spinal ...
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Dietary Supplements Proper Nutrition
1,203 wordsAre Vitamins Really Good? As the 20 th century draws to a close medical sciences concerns differ significantly from those of earlier years. According to the Background on Adult Nutrition from the Family Haven site: prior to World War II, Americans main nutritional problems stemmed from lack of sufficient food or variety of foods. Nutrition scientists of that era focused on defining essential nutrients, primarily vitamins, in order to outline the minimum food intake for good health. (Flex) Vitami...
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Creatine Supplementation Creatine Monohydrate
914 wordsDietary supplements: Beneficial or Hazardous? On any given day, a student athlete could walk into a trainers or coaches office holding up a bottle and ask Hey coach, does this stuff work? This young athlete, playing three sports a year, is referring to the dietary supplement called creatine. This, and many more products, are becoming more and more popular these days among high school student-athletes. These young men and, quite possibly young women, are using this supplement without realizing th...
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Dietary Supplements Amino Acids
1,684 wordsJeff Reese was a bright, energetic scholar-athlete at the University of Michigan when he died suddenly on December 9, 1997. His death came as a total shock because, as a wrestler, Reese was a fit young man without any known medical conditions. The autopsy said the cause of death was rhabdomyolysis, a cellular breakdown of skeletal muscle. His family, friends, doctors, and the NCAA all think Reese's death was caused by the supplement creatine Reese was taking to improve his wrestling skills. This...
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Ginkgo Biloba Protease Inhibitors
776 wordsInteractions Between Dietary Supplements And Pharmaceuticals Essay, Interactions Between Dietary Supplements And Pharmaceuticals &# 65279; Interactions between dietary supplements and drugs will become a more serious concern as supplement makers adopt better manufacturing practices. Some of these interactions are positive to the patient? s health, while others are not. Mary Hardy, M. D. , is a member of the Integrative Medicine Department of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. According ...
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Dietary Supplements Human Body
626 wordsSupplements: For Better or Worse Human body is the most complex biochemical factory anyone can image, and there is no doubt that this biochemical factory requires hundreds of chemicals supplied from food to function. Every molecule in the body originated from the nutrients we eat. Foods, therefore, make an important contribution to build and to maintain health because they are necessary for the biochemical reactions basic to life. It follows that any nutrient deficiencies can be an important fac...
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