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Diet & Exercise: Fast facts about fruit and vegetables

When counseling nutrition, I explain that most folks, including children, don’t get enough fruits and vegetables in their ...

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Diet & Exercise: Vitamin C — Not just a good way to fight a cold

Vitamin C, or “ascorbic acid”, was discovered in 1912, isolated first by Hungarian biochemists Albert Szent-Gyorgi and Walter ...

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Diet & Exercise: Calcium essential for young, old to build bones, prevent osteoporosis

The word calcium is derived from the Latin “calx” or “calcis,” meaning “lime”, since it’s extracted from limestone, ...

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Diet & Exercise: A super antioxidant that greatly improves one’s health

Vitamin E was discovered in 1922, isolated in 1935, then synthesized in 1938. It’s first application was identified ...

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Diet & Exercise: Vitamin D helps people lose weight, improves strength, brightens days

These days, it’s difficult to pick up any health publication without reading something about vitamin D. Actually, vitamin ...

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Diet & Exercise: Essential nutrients: B12, one of nature’s most complex, helpful vitamins

This week’s nutrient is vitamin B12 also known as cobalamin, methylcobalamin (the most active form in the human ...

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Diet & Exercise: Essential nutrients: B9 important vitamin for preventing birth defects

Folate, also known as folic acid, folacin, and vitamin B9, was discovered between 1931 and 1943, and is ...

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Diet & Exercise: Essential nutrients: Vitamin B6 helps keep body’s muscles stronger, toned

Today’s essential nutrient is vitamin B6 (pyridoxine). B6 is naturally present in many foods, added to foods and ...

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Diet & Exercise: Essential nutrients: Vitamin B5

Vitamin B5, also known as pantothenic acid and calcium pantothenate, is necessary to all forms of life. In ...

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Diet & Exercise: Essential nutrients: Vitamin B3, niacin

Today, I’d like to share information on the essential nutrient, Niacin.  Also known as nicotinic acid or vitamin ...

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