Vitamins & Supplements

Boning Up on Calcium

With questions being raised about supplements, its time to take a fresh look at getting enough calcium from your diet. Calcium is not only the most abundant mineral in the human body, its also the one Americans spend the most getting more

Olive Oil May Boost Bones in Mediterranean Diet

Already touted for heart health and other benefits, the so-called Mediterranean diet

FDA OKs Boosting Bread Vitamin D with Yeast

Soon you may be getting more of your daily vitamin D from bread

Vitamin D Cant Stop the Common Cold

Dont count on vitamin D to protect you from the sniffles. New Zealand researchers report

Can Fish Oil Help Keep You Young?

Increasing your ratio of omega-3s to omega-6 fats may slow aging at the cellular level.

Vitamin D Doesnt Help Arthritic Knees

Dont look to vitamin D pills to relieve your knee arthritis pain.

What You Need to Know Now About Multivitamins

Making sense of multivitamins cancer-prevention promise, heart-disease disappointment in recent findings.

Probiotics: Know What Works, What Doesnt

New study finds probiotics protect against antibiotics complications.

High-Dose Vitamin C Pills Could Double Kidney-Stone Risk

Some people assume that, since vitamins from your diet are important for your health, taking even more vitamins in pill form must be even better for you. But thats not necessarily the case.

All-Natural Label OK for Bottled Tea with HFCS

The term natural on food labels, already meaningless