Back to School Nutrition
There has been a lot of talk recently about school lunches and making them healthier. With soaring rates of childhood obesity and related chronic diseases, many are finally seeing the obvious problem with what our schools have been serving up to our children: we are killing our future. Chronic diseases such as diabetes, high blood […]
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‘Issue and answer’ from Dr. Devaki Lindsey Berkson
The issues — Antibiotics – when you need them they save your life, but how to protect your gut so you don’t ruin your health down the road? Antibiotics are lifesavers; they can save us from pneumonia or that serious infected tooth or that infection in our kidneys. But, they are well known to wallop […]
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Women with ‘unexplained fatigue’ should take iron supplements: Study
The women in the new study, published in the CMAJ, did not have anemia, but were considered to have borderline levels of ferretin. A daily dose of 80 milligrams of elemental iron in the form of ferrous sulfate was associated with a decrease in fatigue stores of 48%, compared to a decrease of 29% in […]
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