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 [...]
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 [...]
Once again, Mannatech’s excellence in educating the public about nutrition and health has been confirmed by a panel of experts. Mannatech’s blog HealthyScience.net was bestowed a Winter/Spring 2011 Web Health Silver Award by the Health Information Resource Center, a national clearinghouse for professionals who work in consumer health fields. The Web health awards program honors [...]
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.
I have two dear friends—we’ll call them Julie and Sara—who both recently faced decisions about their health. Julie, an accountant, lives here in Dallas, Texas. Sara, a biologist, lives in another state. Because of the nature of my work here at Mannatech—evaluating science that investigates associations between nutrition and health—it has been hard for me [...]
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.
Regulatory authorities throughout the world are drastically tightening the regulations relating to dietary supplements. Some are treating dietary supplements as medicines and demanding more and more scientific evidence to substantiate claims and document safety. In the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and certain members of Congress have recently [...]
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