| Consumer Reports Rates Online Nutrition Advice | | Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 10:57:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | Tens of millions of consumers seek nutrition advice online, regularly searching for information about dietary supplements, food allergies and how to lose weight. But a new evaluation of the 20 most popular diet and nutrition Internet sites by Consumer Reports WebWatch shows that the information they dish out can be slim on facts and sometimes bloated with commercial interests. .... | |
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| | | Salad Contains Nutrients In Optimum Level | | Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 1:04:05 AM by Blog57 Team | | A new study by UCLA/Louisiana State University says that the consumption of salad and raw vegetables will give people more folic acid, vitamins C and E, lycopene and alpha and beta carotene than other normal meals. The researchers studied data on more than 17,500 men and women and have published their findings in the September edition of the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Dietetic Association. The study also said that eating salads will meet the recommended dietary allowances (RDA) for vitamin C i to an extent of 165% in women and 119% in men. The study is the first to examine the relationship between normal salad consumption and nutrient levels in the bloodstream, and also the first to examine the dietary adequacy of salad consumption using the latest nutritional guidelines of the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences.... | |
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| | | Qld health company receives US business award | | Posted Friday, August 04, 2006 10:58:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | Queensland company BioLogic Health Solutions has been awarded a product merit award by the American Nutrition Business Journal for its incontinence product UroLogic. The award recognises companies for their distinguished achievements in various business categories such as business accomplishment, sales growth, social responsibility, customer service and product performance. Managing director Debbie Seipel says she is honoured to receive the award such a short time after entering the US market – UroLogic only launched in the US in early 2005. "This award caps off a momentous year for Biologic Health Solutions with steady growth in both the Australian and US markets," she says. UroLogic is a patent-pending formula containing the western herb, Horsetail, traditionally used to address the symptoms of urinary incontinence and the Ayurvedic herb, Crateva, that assists bladder tone.... | |
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| | | Global Fund lashes out at Manto | | Posted Monday, July 03, 2006 9:20:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | Mick Matthews, the civil society officer at the Global Fund, says more pressure needs to be applied to get a Global Fund grant to be allocated for nutritional supplements for people living with HIV/Aids. The Global Fund is holding its Second Partnership Forum in Durban. Matthews lashed out at Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, the health minister, for promoting nutrition instead of drugs for the treatment of Aids. Matthews, who has lived with the HIV virus for 25 years, says this will weaken the argument that there is a need for more treatment. Matthews has commended the National Association of People Living with Aids (Napwa) after a demonstration near where the international organisation is meeting. Napwa is demanding that nutrition be prioritised in the fight against HIV and Aids.... | |
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