Study adds to the ever growing body of evidence of the importance of vitamin D.
A new study has found that Vitamin D can counter the effects of Crohn’s disease. The study is published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
The research was led by Dr. John White, an endocrinologist at the Research Institute of [...]

In new research pubished in the journal Neuron, neuroscientists at MIT and Tsinghua University in Beijing show that increasing brain magnesium with a new compound enhanced learning abilities, working memory, and short- and long-term memory in rats. The dietary supplement also boosted older rats’ ability to perform a variety of learning tests.
Magnesium is an essential [...]

That the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics long period of time can lead to severe secondary bacterial infections because the bacteria destroys the “good bacteria” in the gut, which are an essential part of the immune system has long been a problem of the use of antibiotics.
New researcher from the University of Pennsylvania School of [...]

Women who quit smoking before or early in pregnancy significantly reduce the risk for several adverse outcomes.
Compared with women who do not smoke

Women who smoke prior to pregnancy are about twice as likely to experience a delay in conception and have approximately 30% higher odds of being infertile.
Women who smoke during pregnancy are [...]

Babies born of women who smoked during pregnancy show signs of circulatory dysfunction in the first few weeks of life that get worse throughout the first year, Swedish researchers reported in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Study highlights:

* Blood pressure control in infants of smoking mothers is abnormal compared to [...]

New research published in the BMJ finds more evidence of the importance of vitamin D in human health.
The research found that people with the highest levels of vitamin D in their blood had up-to a 40 percent lower risk for developing colorectal cancer compared to people with the lowest levels of vitamin D.
The [...]

According to Researchers from McGill University in Canada, chicken sold in supermarkets, restaurants and other outlets may place young women at risk of urinary tract infections (UTI).
Samples taken in the Montreal area between 2005 and 2007, in collaboration with the Public Health Agency of Canada and the University of Guelph, provide strong new evidence [...]

Reducing salt in the American diet by as little as one-half teaspoon (or three grams) per day could prevent nearly 100,000 heart attacks and 92,000 deaths each year, according to a new study. Such benefits are on par with the benefits from reductions in smoking and could save the United States about $24 billion [...]

Research from the University of San DIego has found, not surprisingly, that exposure to tobacco smoke makes lung cancer much worse, and one reason is that it steps up inflammation in the lung. Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that mice with early lung cancer lesions that were [...]

A bit of research from last year that is worth repeating is research that suggested the potential compounds in curry to kill cancer cells. For those whole love curry (most of us I thinK) this is great news.
Scientists at the Cork Cancer Research Centre, University College Cork (UCC), treated oesophageal cancer cells with curcumin, [...]