Nutrition
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Why is Ginseng considered a health food?
Why is Royal Jelly considered a health food?
Nutrition Article · 12 min read
Do Calcium and Vitamin D Supplements Actually Prevent Fractures and Falls?
A BMJ systematic review of 69 randomised trials and 153,902 adults found calcium alone, vitamin D alone, and the two combined all produced little to no meaningful reduction in fractures or falls. One combination did clear statistical significance — but missed the review's own bar for a clinically me
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Nutrition Article · 16 min read
Folate vs. Folic Acid: What's the Difference, and What Does the Evidence Say About Autism?
"Folate" and "folic acid" get used as if they're the same word, and they aren't quite the same molecule. Here's the actual biochemical difference, why folic acid ended up in bread in the first place, and what a genuinely active — and fast-moving — body of research says about folate and autism, inclu
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Nutrition Article · 13 min read
Do Common Food Preservatives Raise Blood Pressure and Heart Risk?
A French cohort of 112,395 adults, followed a median of 7.9 years, found that the heaviest consumers of preservative food additives developed hypertension and cardiovascular disease at higher rates than the lightest. Eight individual preservatives were each tied to high blood pressure, including sod
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