prevention

Joint British Societies for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

13 Aug 2015

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One of the recent developments in risk assessment for cardiovascular disease has been the updated version of the JBS2 calculator to the JBS3. This…

Vegas, Pregnancy, Immunity and Allergy Prevention!

26 Jul 2010

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The saying is ‘what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas’, or if you are English ‘what happens in Blackpool….’ but the same cannot be…

Vitamin E Prevents Alzheimer’s?

12 Jul 2010

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A study in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease has raised the interesting correlation between a single nutrient with multiple components and Alzheimer’s disease (AD)…

Atishoo – that’s D’ one!

23 Apr 2010

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Vitamin D Vs Influenza A Lets face it, right now we are still recovering from the various revelations about the novel variant H1N1 or…

Multi Vitamins May Help Prevent Breast Cancer

21 Apr 2010

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There is an area of discovery related to food supplement ingestion and cancer prevention that has been attracting a lot of interest. Namely; does…

Lifestyle Changes Better Than Drugs for Diabetes Prevention

15 Mar 2010

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A series of papers out in the New England Journal of medicine on March the 14th 2010 have failed to add any substantive weight…

Gut Bacteria May Make You Fat

5 Mar 2010

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Obesity: A consequence of adverse inflammation & microbial disruption? By Michael Ash BSc(Hons) DO, ND, FDipION Published in CAM 2005 Overweight and obesity are…

Disease Incidence Prevention by Serum 25(OH)D Level

3 Mar 2010

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In the last few years a considerable consensus across the scientific community has begun to emerge concerning the fat soluble nutrient Vitamin D. Vitamin…

Soft Drink Intake Linked to Pancreatic Cancer Risk

21 Feb 2010

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The February issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention published a paper showing a staggering 87% increase in the risk of developing pancreatic cancer…

Expensive Urine or Effective Triage?

19 Feb 2010

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Victor Herbert, the outspoken Harvard nutrition scientist, was quoted by the United States well read Time magazine in a famous 1992 cover story about…