Breast Cancer Benefits from Antioxidants
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The concurrent use of antioxidants in the form of food supplements and cancer whilst undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy has been subject to a variety…
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What’s Best – Low Sodium or High Minerals
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A recent Cochrane review suggests that diabetic patients should keep to a low salt diet to prevent diabetic kidney disease. Their collaboration review looked…
Vit D – Depressing Commentary from IOM
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Recently the USA’s Institute of Medicine made a public statement in which the dose of Vitamin D to meet bone health requirements was applied…
Comprehensive Food Allergy Guidelines Released
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A food allergy is defined as an adverse health effect arising from a specific immune response that occurs reproducibly on exposure to a given…
Is that Iron Supplement Making Your IBD Patient Ill?
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Iron replacement therapy is a common treatment in patients with anaemia and Crohn’s disease, but oral iron supplements are less tolerated. The pathogenesis of…
LGG improves IBS in Children
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Functional Bowel problems can be a real problem, causing considerable emotional as well as physical distress. If you are a child and not really…
Brief Explanation of Food Allergy
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From a medical perspective food allergy is an immunoglobulin (Ig)E- or non-IgE-mediated immune response to food protein. This small review will look at the…
Does Getting Older Make You More At Risk For Allergies?
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As if the burdens of age are not tiresome enough, the idea that we ‘grow out’ of allergies appears to be proving to be…
