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‘Insanely Healthy’ Verve Debuts Retail Friendly Energy Shot (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Scottsdale wellness company’s Verve Energy Shot combines daily nutrition and energy needed for the fast lane.
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Aetna Educates Women about Role of Folic Acid in Preventing Premature Birth (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
HARTFORD, Conn.—-Aetna has begun a pilot program to educate female members of childbearing years about the role folic acid may play in preventing premature births. Recent medical literature suggests that 400 micrograms of synthetic folic acid consumed daily for one year prior to pregnancy may result in a 50% decrease in the rate of births between 28-32 weeks gestation, and a 70% decrease in …
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Food crimes (Student Life)
The New York Times recently reported that two Chinese men were sentenced to death after they were determined to be the guilty parties behind the tainted milk incident this past September.
Source: www.studlife.com
Low vitamin D linked to higher risk of dementia: Study (Nutraingredients.com)
The study, conducted on almost 2,000 adults over the age of 65, is the first of its scale to identify this relationship, and prompted researchers to suggest vitamin D supplementation as a possible means of reducing the risk of dementia.
Source: www.nutraingredients-usa.com
Ink bleeding into social fabric (Las Vegas Sun)
The tattoo guns buzz like dentists’ drills and the smell of vitamin D ointment adds a medicinal quality to the few hundred painted arms holding aluminum bottles of Bud Light.
Source: www.lasvegassun.com
Bronson bids a sad ‘so long’ (La Cañada Valley Sun)
It’s been more than a decade since Bronson Pharmaceuticals President Ray Hensley purchased the company and moved it from its longtime Rinetti Lane location across the street to the Plaza de La Cañada, Von’s shopping center.
Source: www.lacanadaonline.com
Vitamin A supplements pass quality test - just (Nutraingredients.com)
Such a level of certain forms of vitamin A are potentially toxic, according to Consumerlab.com, the third party analyst that carried out the test. Three other products came in between 68.2 and 77.5 percent of their stated vitamin A label claim.
Source: www.nutraingredients-usa.com
Test Your Vitamin D Knowledge: Wellesse Liquid Sunshine Instant Win and Sweepstakes (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Wellesse, manufacturers of new Liquid Vitamin D3, has launched an online promotion that challenges participants to assess their vitamin knowledge for a chance to win healthy prizes - including a personal nutrition consultation and a year’s supply of liquid vitamin D3 at http://VitaminD.Wellesse.com.
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FDA finds vitamin B6 form not legal in supplements (Nutraingredients.com)
The decision, in response to a petition from a North Carolina-based firm called Biostratum, provoked the Washington DC-based Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) to issue a statement warning that a precedent could be established that could see the status of other ingredients challenged.
Source: www.nutraingredients-usa.com