Richard A. Passwater PhDProfessor Lester Packer, Ph.D. is the Director of the Membrane Bioenergetics Group and Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of California at Berkeley. His distinguished career in teaching and research has included appointments at...
Did your mother ever tell you to eat your vegetables? Well, she was right! Healthy vegetarian foods are a powerful weapon in the fight against cancer. Fruits and vegetables contain a variety of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytochemicals...
What Doctors Don't Tell YouA modest amount of wine a day might well reduce heart problems, many research studies have concluded. Now Spanish researchers have also found that it can stop you catching a cold. Men and women who drank more than two glasses of wine every week had...
Exposure to bright light is, according to convention, an important risk factor for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and those at risk are advised to reduce their exposure to light wherever possible.
Free radicals from gastric acids may be more important that the acid itself in reflux oesophagitis (inflammation of the oesophagus due to acids backing up from the stomach).
The risk of cataracts appears to diminish among those who regularly eat spinach and those who have taken vitamin C supplements for more than 10 years. ...
CHEMOTHERAPY: Vitamin E can reduce the worst effects
The best treatment is prevention. To make sure you don’t develop AMD . . .
* Supplement, especially with antioxidants (Arch Ophthalmol, 1994; 112: 222-7). A large multicentre clinical trial, sponsored by the US National Eye Institute,
*Make simple changes to your diet and supplement programme. Osteoarthritis (OA) and cartilage loss are not inevitable consequences of growing older.
Finnish research echoes earlier reports of link between low levels of certain nutrients and cataracts (WDDTY, Vol. 3 No. 5; Vol. 3 No. 8). ...
