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- Why Pyridoxine May Be The Most Vital Of All The B Complex Vitamins
Dec 24, 2007
Vitamin B6, also known as pyridoxine, has been known to medical science since the 1930s, and like the other B complex vitamins performs numerous...
Category: Fitness
- Take Vitamin B6 For Your Heart's Sake
Dec 15, 2007
First isolated in the 1930s, vitamin B6 is a highly water soluble vitamin of vital importance to human health An adequate dietary supply is...
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- How Minute Quantities Of Selenium May Have A Massive Impact On Your Health
Dec 15, 2007
Selenium is one of those micro-nutrients which although required by the body in only tiny quantities are nevertheless vitally important for the...
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- Don't Overlook Familiar Anti-Oxidants Like Riboflavin (Vitamin B2)
Dec 14, 2007
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...
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- Why Niacin Is A Small But Vital Part Of Your Anti-Oxidant Rich Diet
Dec 14, 2007
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 In its...
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- Moderate Drinkers Beware - You Too Could Be Flushing Vital Vitamin B1 Out Of Your Body
Dec 14, 2007
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...
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- Could Vitamin B12 Be The Secret Weapon In The Battle Against Depression?
Dec 13, 2007
Vitamin B12, occasionally also known as cobalamin, is one of the most important and most intensively studied of the B complex vitamins This group...
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- Lutein And Zeaxanthin For Healthy Eyes
Dec 13, 2007
"Carotenoids" is the term which describes the large range of more than 600 phytochemical pigments from which many plants derive their...
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- Vitamin C: Why You Can't Assume You're Getting Enough
Dec 13, 2007
Many benefits of vitamin C have been identified since the consumption of citrus fruit was first recognised as the immediately effective cure and...
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- Why Lipoic Acid Is Much More Than Just Another Anti-oxidant
Dec 13, 2007
Lipoic acid, also known as alpha-lipoic acid or thioctic acid, is a vitamin like compound produced naturally by the body in very limited...
Category: Medicine
- Why Is This Natural Compound The World's #1 Best-selling Muscle Building Supplement
Dec 13, 2007
If you've been working long and hard in the gym but find that it's weeks or months since you saw any appreciable gains in strength or muscularity,...
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- Why Freedom From Disease Is Not The Same Thing As Optimal Health
Dec 13, 2007
It's now several centuries since fresh fruit and vegetables were discovered to be effective in preventing and curing scurvy, and such acute...
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- Don't Neglect The Anti-oxidant Micro-nutrients When Taking Vitamin E
Dec 13, 2007
Since its discovery in 1922 Vitamin E has become generally regarded as one of the body's most powerful, versatile and useful anti-oxidants And as...
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- The 200 Essential Enzymes That Prove Zinc Is Vital For Health
Dec 11, 2007
Zinc is one of the many trace minerals required by the body, but the fact that it's required in relatively small amounts should not be allowed to...
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- Why High Cholesterol (And High Choline) Foods May Be Good For Your Blood
Dec 10, 2007
Choline is an essential nutrient but not, strictly speaking, a vitamin although it is often mistakenly thought of as a member of the B complex,...
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- Why Ginkgo Biloba Is The Best-Selling Booster For Brain Function
Dec 10, 2007
The preparations of ginkgo biloba commonly sold as herbal supplements are derived from the leaves of the ginkgo trees, which are probably the...
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- Why The Magic Of Manganese Isn't Just In The Name
Dec 10, 2007
Manganese is one of those elements commonly referred to as "trace" minerals within the human body, because they're found and required only in...
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- Why Arginine Is A Non-essential Amino Acid You Can't Do Without
Dec 10, 2007
The subject of a great deal of intense research by conventional medicine, nutritional therapists and sports scientists for at least fifty years,...
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- Cut Through The Marketing Hype And Taurine Can Still Be Of Great Benefit
Dec 3, 2007
Taurine is one of those perhaps lesser known amino acids which are known to medicine as "non-essential" But "non-essential" in this context simply...
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- How Methionine May Serve As A Natural Anti-depressant
Dec 2, 2007
Methionine is one of the 10 essential amino acids which cannot be manufactured in the body, and must therefore be obtained from the diet Like other...
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