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Beware of These Dietary Supplement Advertising Tricks (Part 2)
Trick #3: “Free” samples that turn out to be costly To get your 14-day sample of Instaflex, just give a credit card number to cover the $4.99 shipping and handling. But if you don’t cancel within 18...
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Can Probiotic Dietary Supplements Help with Constipation?
The problem: About 15 percent of adults (more women than men) suffer from constipation. What may help: Bifidobacterium lactis DN-173 010. The evidence: Among 126 Chinese women with constipation, those...
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Beware of These Dietary Supplement Advertising Tricks (Part 3)
Trick #6: “Weird” tips and tricks to sell overpriced supplements Ever click on one of those “One Weird Trick” or “One Weird Old Tip” ads? The simple sketch or odd photo makes them stand out. Most...
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Vitamin Supplements: The Best Multivitamins
Have you bought multivitamins lately? Have you heard they can prevent a cold? (They don’t.) Or perhaps that multivitamins are useless? (They’re not.) Or that they could even lead to a shorter life?...
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Antioxidants and Cancer: What Are the Antioxidant Benefits?
Antioxidants and cancer were supposed to be bitter enemies. For years, it was assumed that the benefits of antioxidants also included a reduction in heart disease, memory loss, type 2 diabetes,...
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What is Vitamin D Good For?
Many studies that track healthy people for years have reached the same conclusion: “People with higher levels of vitamin D have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the future,” says Tufts...
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Should I Take a Multivitamin?
“I was gardening for hours, cleaning out closets, energy, energy, energy!” The 49-year-old woman from the Midwest gushed on amazon.com about the multivitamin she had been taking for all of one week. “I...
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Do Probiotics Restore Digestive Balance?
“Live a Life of Digestive Comfort.” “Restore your natural digestive balance.” Many probiotics—so-called “good bacteria”—promise to improve your gut bacteria by repopulating your intestines, by crowding...
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The Truth About Your Garlic Supplement
“Supports your cardiovascular system,” say the Kyolic bottles. “Cholesterol’s Natural Enemy,” boast the Garlique packages. Sounds like taking garlic supplements keeps heart disease at bay. Not so fast....
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Are Foods with High Fiber Really That Good for You?
Most people know they should eat more foods with high fiber. But they don’t know why. (Hint: It’s not to lower the risk of colon cancer.) And many people assume that all foods with high fiber are the...
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Do the two most popular supplements for relieving hot flashes really work?
Women seeking to relieve their hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause with dietary supplements need to read labels carefully, especially on products manufactured from soybeans. That’s the finding...
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Forget about these two memory supplements
“For support of healthier brain function, a sharper mind, and clearer thinking, try Prevagen for yourself today.” That’s what ads on the evening network news programs claim. The supplement contains a...
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Are multivitamins a waste of money?
“Stop wasting money on vitamin and mineral supplements,” declared a leading medical journal. “Enough is enough.” The journal was reacting to two disappointing studies on multivitamins. In the first,...
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Is coconut oil a miracle cure for Alzheimer’s disease?
“Four tablespoons of this ‘brain food’ may prevent Alzheimer’s.” That’s what Internet osteopath Joseph Mercola claims about the coconut oil he sells on his website. However, no good studies have shown...
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Vitamin Supplements: The Best Multivitamins
Have you bought multivitamins lately? Have you heard they can prevent a cold? (They don’t.) Or perhaps that multivitamins are useless? (They’re not.) Or that they could even lead to a shorter life?...
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Supplements: No evidence that Ester-C brand of vitamin C provides special...
It’s winter, the season of colds and flu. So time for dietary supplement companies to promote their products as immunity-protectors. Even though there’s little evidence that they are. Did you see the...
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What Prevents Sunlight from Making Vitamin D in Your Skin?
Vitamin D is special among the vitamins because we can make some of it ourselves — if we get enough sunlight. All the other vitamins we obtain entirely from food or from the bacteria in our intestinal...
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Do the Azo Bladder Control Supplements Really Work?
Seen the claims for Azo Bladder Control pills? This dietary supplement, marketed primarily to women, supposedly “helps control the need to go to the bathroom,” “helps reduce occasional urgency,” and...
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This supplement may dramatically lower the risk of miscarriage
Women who took a multivitamin or prenatal vitamin daily before becoming pregnant cut their risk in half of suffering a miscarriage, according to new research released this week. Researchers from the...
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These Three Dietary Supplements Can Lower LDL (“bad”) Cholesterol Levels
Phytosterols are plant extracts that keep some cholesterol from being absorbed from the intestinal tract into the bloodstream. That’s probably why so many supplements (and a few margarines, like...
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