This video by Dr. Thomas E. Levy illustrates that the nutrients present in your “enriched” foods may not be as nutritious as you thought. Manufacturers of cereals are allowed to use indigestible iron filings in breakfast cereal. These cereal products can be dangerous for children and all patients with inflammatory diseases.
Category Archives: Trace Elements
Nutritional Support for Wound Healing
Nutrition plays a crucial role in wound healing. Nutritional status of patients at the time of trauma or surgery influences the biochemical processes necessary for the phases of normal healing to occur. Evidence exists that vitamins A and C, zinc, arginine, glutamine, glucosamine, bromelain, Aloe vera, and Centella asiatica may be beneficial to wounded or …
Zinc Regulates Communication Between Brain Cells
– Zinc has been found to play a critical role in regulating communication between cells in the brain, possibly governing the formation of memories and controlling the occurrence of epileptic seizures. A collaborative project between Duke University Medical Center researchers and chemists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been able to watch zinc in …
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Link Between Parkinson’s Disease And Manganese Poisoning
A connection between genetic and environmental causes of Parkinson’s disease has been discovered by a research team led by Aaron D. Gitler, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Gitler and colleagues found in 2009 a genetic interaction between two Parkinson’s disease genes …
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Manganese In Drinking Water: Study Suggests Adverse Effects On Children’s Intellectual Abilities
A team of researchers recently completed a study showing that children exposed to high concentrations of manganese in drinking water performed worse on tests of intellectual functioning than children with lower exposures. A team of researchers led by Maryse Bouchard, adjunct professor at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, Health, Environment and Society (CINBIOSE) …
FDA: Fluoride Supplements Never Found Safe Or Effective
Sodium fluoride supplements “have not been found by FDA to be safe or effective,” according to the US National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) website, reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF). Routinely prescribed to children in non-water-fluoridated communities, sometimes even in fluoridated areas, sodium fluoride drops, lozenges and “vitamins” are meant to …
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Zinc Lozenges May Shorten the Duration of Colds
Zinc lozenges might be useful as a treatment option for the common cold, according to a meta-analysis published in The Open Respiratory Medicine Journal. Studies have shown that taking a dose of more than 75 mg of zinc in the form of zinc lozenges per day cut the duration of the common cold by 20 to 42 percent. …
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Iron Rich Foods
Food Sources of Iron ranked by milligrams of iron per standard amount; also calories in the standard amount. (All are ≥ 10% of RDA for teen and adult females, which is 18 mg/day.) Food, Standard Amount Iron (mg) Calories Clams, canned, drained, 3 oz 23.8 126 Fortified ready-to-eat cereals (various), ~ 1 oz 1.8 -21.1 54-127 …
Copper Folds Protein Into Precursors Of Parkinson’s Plaques
Researchers at North Carolina State University have figured out how copper induces misfolding in the protein associated with Parkinson’s disease, leading to creation of the fibrillar plaques which characterize the disease. This finding has implications for both the study of Parkinson’s progression, as well as for future treatments. The protein in question, alpha-synuclein, is the …
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