Vitamin D: Not the Average Vitamin
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TheHolisticOption1 Comment
By Dr. Christine Gonzalez (PharmD, CHC) Don’t let the name fool you. Even though it is called a vitamin, vitamin D actually functions more as a hormone in the body. I have become more intrigued with this “nutrient” lately after observing an obvious increase in the number of prescriptions we receive for the prescription strength version at my phar ...
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Vitamin D - The Sunshine Vitamin...
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Dr. Edward Leyton2 Comments
Vitamin D - The Sunshine Vitamin If I told you to go out into the sun without sunscreen on a regular basis you would probably think I had lost my marbles. But that is exactly what I am going to tell you. Why? Because research in the last decade proves that people living in the northern hemisphere particularly, have as a population, a significant de ...
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Got Vitamin F?
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TheHolisticOption
By Carol Harblin (CHHC) There are a lot of vitamins out there. We all know about and have heard of Vitamins A, D, E, K and all the B's...but have you ever heard of Vitamin F? It's a Vitamin that nourishes our hearts ...
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Vitamins for Eyesight
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Israel L.
... aily need of Vitamin A. Most of the listed products above are part of our daily food ingestion. However, if you do not eat fruits, vegetables and the occasional fish, lack of vitamins may lead to:• Nyctalopia - night blindness, due to insufficiencies in the eye’s rhodopsin production for the eye. • Lowered immune system - without Vitamin A the bod ...
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Vitamin A deficiency
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Sonzy
Carrots?Nooooooooo!That’s me as a kid. I liked the color of a carrot and I could choose for a frock. But I would never eat carrots but discard them in my lunch box. A girl with glowing skin told me she mostly survived on salads (mostly carrot salads) as her mother hardly cooked at home. I went crazy over these orange tubers. I would sleep and dream ...
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Bee Vitamin.
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Melting Mama
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Thiamine, also known as vitamin B1, is part of the B-complex vitamins.
Thiamine is important for converting energy from carbohydrates (sugars
and starches) into energy for your cells. It is also important for the
health of the heart, th ...
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vitamins
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rscowtown
People have been asking about vitamins, here is what I take: from www.bariatricadvantage.com the chewable multi vitamin and the calcium citrate (a suck on it till it softens then chew it, comes in other fl ...
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VITAMINS FTW!
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Melting Mama
You heard 'em right, GIVES KIDS WHAT THEY NEED TO TAKE.Although, Fred is very smart, they won't work unless you eat 'em.
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Vitamin K
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Carrie A.
I have a nice, shiny bruise on my knee, from smacking it on the turnstile in the subway. I have always bruised fairly easily, but never quite like when I was deeply anorexic. From the knee down, my legs were simply mottled with black-and-blue marks, most of which I couldn't remember receiving. During my last residential stay, I was given several ...
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Vitamin and Mineral supplements ...
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Medical Quack
Vitamin and Mineral supplements are one thing, but I can see where this can get out of hand on the Internet. When checking on products claiming a cure, best to look for a label of FDA approval first. BD The letters criticized unproven claims made about these products including the ability to "destroy the enzyme on DNA responsible for cancer cells ...
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