In a previous Healthy Science blog, Supplements 101: The Basics of Dietary Supplement Labels, we offered a few simple tips to help consumers discern dietary supplement quality by careful product label reading. There is, of course, much more to making good dietary supplement choices. Let’s consider the Council for Responsible Nutrition’s (CRN) guidance, “One Dozen [...]
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 [...]
In a departure from statements made in the past, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) now agrees that nutritional supplements can boost athletic performance. In the IOC Consensus Statement on Sports Nutrition 2010 issued from its head office in Lausanne, Switzerland, on October 27, 2010, the organization concedes that some supplements may enhance performance for some [...]
From where I sit in Mannatech’s Research and Development (R&D) department, I see many things that make me proud. First and foremost, I’m proud that Mannatech makes great products.
A new study published in the journal Food Policy¹ documents the increasing price gap between foods high in nutrition and foods that can be classified as junk foods.
Recently the American Academy of Pediatrics¹ (AAP) and authors published in the British Medical Journal² (BMJ) and the Journal of Nutrition³ recommended that people of all ages, from children to older adults, increase vitamin D levels in the body using nutritional supplements.
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