What’s one way to find out whether you really need something? Well, you could throw it away and see if you miss it! Surprisingly, in the world of nutrition research, this approach has actually, and often inadvertently, driven major discoveries. Let’s take rice as an example. Scientists think that humans first started cultivating rice over [...]
Recent studies have caused many nutrition scientists to reconsider appropriate daily calcium intake. Concerns about intake of RDA levels of supplemental calcium (1,000 mg/day) were raised a few years ago when a seven-year study of over 36,000 postmenopausal women showed that, while such supplementation resulted in a small but significant improvement in hip bone density, [...]
Recently, the media has pounced on a couple of published studies, which reported that dietary supplements can be bad for you. One study found that intake of vitamin E increased the risk of prostate cancer (1); another reported that post menopausal women who took certain vitamins and minerals had an increased risk of dying (2). [...]
The brain is an exceedingly complex structure, a vital component of the central nervous system that is essential for life. It is well known that nutrition, especially early nutrition, plays a key role in the development and function of the brain. This being so, it would be expected that appropriate nutritional supplementation, one of the [...]
Did you know that 95% of vitamin/mineral supplements sold in North America today are synthetic?1 In most cases, that means you’ll find rocks, petroleum and coal tar in the supplements you’re taking to help you maintain a healthy life. A bit shocking, isn’t it? It’s a mantra that we at Mannatech® have placed at the very center [...]
It is generally accepted that health doesn’t just miraculously appear. Rather, it is the end result of a process that begins at the cellular level in the body and cascades through tissues and organs to ultimately be identified at the clinical level. To be clinically healthy, it is essential that the process start with healthy [...]
In 1977, when the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs issued “Dietary Goals for the United States,” their primary goal was to discourage excessive intake of food components linked to chronic disease. This was the first of many governmental attempts to influence America’s dietary choices. It can be argued that subsequent confusing [...]
An international group of vitamin D experts recently published the Endocrine Society’s (ES) Vitamin D Clinical Practice Guidelines, which challenge some of the key findings of the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) recent vitamin D Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) and tolerable upper limit (UL) recommendations¥2. The Endocrine Society also challenged the IOM’s [...]
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