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Why Omega 6 Fatty Acids Are Crucial for the Health of Your Heart
Much attention has recently been paid to the potential harm caused by saturated and particularly so-called “trans fats” in the diet...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Take Omega 3 Essential Fatty Acids for the Health of Your Heart
Much of the misunderstanding surrounding polyunsaturated fatty acids may perhaps be ascribed to the general horror evoked in our society by the very words “fat” and “fatty”...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Diet, Sunlight And Osteoporosis
The term osteoporosis refers to the unfortunately very common condition by which bones become de-mineralised and reduced in strength...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Vitamins E And C – Effective Against The Common Cold?
Most people are now familiar with the idea that vitamin C may help protect against and mitigate the symptoms of the common cold, although this theory is by no means universally accepted by orthodox medical opinion...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Why Your Diet May Not Be As Rich In Iodine As You Assume
The trace mineral iodine is well known for its crucial role in enabling the body’s manufacture of vital thyroid hormones, but it is also important for the health of the immune system and for optimal brain function...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Trace Mineral Vanadium Against Diabetes?
Vanadium is a curious trace element and somewhat difficult to write about It is a little known trace mineral which seems to be required by the body in relatively tiny amounts, and it is not even clear that it is absolutely necessary at all...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Why Inositol Is Much More Than Just A Powerful Fat-Burner
In common with choline, inositol is often regarded as a member of the B-complex of vitamins, although this is not strictly accurate...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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A Lesser Known Mineral, But Potassium Is Vital For Every Single Cell
Potassium is one of the most important minerals for human health, playing an essential role in maintaining the correct electro-chemical balance in cells and the proper functioning of cell membranes...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Iron Is One Of The Body’s Most Vital Minerals – But You May Well Be Getting Too Much
Iron is probably the best known of all the essential minerals found in the human body; and this is not surprising since it is vital for the formation of hundreds of the proteins and enzymes on which health depends...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Why You Need To Be Aware Of Your Copper Levels
The human body contains more copper than any other mineral, except iron and zinc, and has been known to be essential for both human and animal health since the earliest days of Western medicine...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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The Benefits Of Para-Aminobenzoic Acid (PABA)
Para-aminobenzoic acid, or PABA, is a relatively little known, but nevertheless important nutrient; commonly, though not strictly accurately, classified as one of the B-complex vitamins...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Zinc - The Brain’s Anti-Oxidant
Although dietary zinc has been known since the 1960s to play an important role in human health, it was not until as recently as 1990 that its role as an important ant-oxidant was identified...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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The Gifts And Benefits Of Myrrh
The role of myrrh in the traditional Christmas story is well known, but the many benefits of this powerful herbal compound perhaps less so...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Why Cat’s Claw May Be One Of Nature’s Most Powerful Healers
Cat’s claw, known as una de gato in Spanish, is a herb derived from a vine-type plant which grows widely in the countries of Central and South America, and is particularly common in the Amazon rainforests and Peru...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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The Health Benefits Of Flavonoids As Anti-oxidants
Flavonoids are highly beneficial anti-oxidant compounds found in many fruits and vegetables, as well as tea, red wine and even beer, and it’s now well established that a plentiful intake of anti-oxidants through foods, drinks and supplements is vital for optimal human health...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Powerful Anti-oxidant Flavonoids Found In Red Wine And Chocolate
There’s now good evidence that it’s not just in fruits and vegetables that health promoting anti-oxidant flavonoids are to be found...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Coenzyme Q10: The Anti-Oxidant In Every Cell
In human beings, coenzyme Q10 is the most common occurring form of coenzyme Q, needed by and found in every cell in the body...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Green Tea Or Black – The Choice Is Yours
Whilst increasing attention is now rightly being paid to the health benefits of white and green teas, the virtues of the much more familiar, and still much more common, black tea, should not be neglected...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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The Little Known Micro-Nutrients That Are Crucial In The Battle Against Ageing
Nutritional science is becoming increasingly interested in the potential of certain micro-nutrients, which appear to be of particular significance in the battle against ageing...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Just What Are Your Optimal Levels Of Vitamin C Intake?
Amongst the general public today, vitamin C is probably the most popular of all nutritional supplements, perhaps principally because it is widely believed to be effective as a cure for the common cold...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Try Tyrosine As An Alternative Anti-Depressant
Tyrosine is one of the lesser known amino acids, although it was identified way back in the nineteenth century, and indeed is described as one of those which are non-essential...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Medicines and Remedies
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Why Pyridoxine May Be The Most Vital Of All The B Complex Vitamins
Vitamin B6, also known as pyridoxine, has been known to medical science since the 1930s, and like the other B complex vitamins performs numerous functions which are essential for human health...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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How Minute Quantities Of Selenium May Have A Massive Impact On Your Health
Selenium is one of those micro-nutrients which although required by the body in only tiny quantities are nevertheless vitally important for the health and well-being of the human organism...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Take Vitamin B6 For Your Heart’s Sake
First isolated in the 1930s, vitamin B6 is a highly water soluble vitamin of vital importance to human health...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Moderate Drinkers Beware – You Too Could Be Flushing Vital Vitamin B1 Out Of Your Body
Back in the 1930s, thiamine, also known as vitamin B1, was one of the first compounds to be isolated and recognised as a vitamin, that’s to say a compound essential to health which the body cannot manufacture for itself, and which must therefore be obtained from the diet...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Don’t Overlook Familiar Anti-Oxidants Like Riboflavin (Vitamin B2)
Riboflavin, also known as vitamin B2, is an important member of the water soluble B complex of vitamins and has of course been well known as an essential nutrient for many years, hence its popularity as a fortifying agent in commercially produced breakfast cereals and breads etc...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Why Niacin Is A Small But Vital Part Of Your Anti-Oxidant Rich Diet
Vitamin B3, commonly known as niacin or nicotinic acid, is one of the B complex of water soluble vitamins needed by the body every day...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Vitamin C: Why You Can’t Assume You’re Getting Enough
Many benefits of vitamin C have been identified since the consumption of citrus fruit was first recognised as the immediately effective cure and preventative for the scurvy which so dreadfully afflicted the long distance sailors of a few centuries ago...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Why Lipoic Acid Is Much More Than Just Another Anti-oxidant
Lipoic acid, also known as alpha-lipoic acid or thioctic acid, is a vitamin like compound produced naturally by the body in very limited quantities, but which may also be obtained from various dietary sources...
Author: Steve P Smith - Category: Medicines and Remedies
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Lutein And Zeaxanthin For Healthy Eyes
“Carotenoids” is the term which describes the large range of more than 600 phytochemical pigments from which many plants derive their characteristic red, orange or yellow colourings...
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