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  It has just been in the news that vitamin C and E did not protect against cancer, referring to an article appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Gaziano JM, et al, 2008). The study included 14,691 participants including 1,307 men with a history of prior cancer...

There are two types of diabetes, type I and type II. Type I diabetes is an autoimmune disease where not enough insulin is produced. While type I diabetes can occur in adult life it is much more common to be born with this condition. Since the pancreas of people with...

  Non-fasting triglycerides mean the fat that is transported by your blood throughout the day. It has been common practice for many years to test the fasting level of triglycerides together with cholesterol. It is less common however to test the triglyceride levels during the day when we have been eating because...

Vitamin D has been found to be important for numerous reasons. In a recent study it was also documented that women who had a higher blood level of 25 hydroxyvitamin D lost more body fat when compared with women with a lower 25 hydroxyvitamin D level (Ortega RM, et al,...

We have all heard that excessive stress is unhealthy. The research referred to here investigated the association between cortisol response and a marker of sub-clinical coronary atherosclerosis (Hamer M., et al., 2009). Cortisol is a stress hormone. The participants were exposed to mental stress through certain tasks. Coronary artery calcification...

Secretory IgA (sIgA) is a mucosal Immunoglobulin and our first line of defense against invading microbes. It is found in mucus and secretions both from the intestine and lining of the lungs. It is interesting that recent research has shown that support of the friendly bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract,...