Health Books - Archives

• Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
  The Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition has announced the appointment of Laura Tarantino, Ph.D., as the Director of CFSAN's Office of Food Additive Safety.
  Author: Gwen Morton - Date: July 19, 2004



• High levels of vitamin D during puberty help the skeleton build more bone mass
  Researchers raised the startling possibility that calcium supplementation in prepubertal girls could hasten the arrival of the first menstrual period, according to results presented at the IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  Author: Brice Boulet - Date: July 19, 2004



• International Experts Convene on Vitamin E Benefits and Potency
  Renowned experts from around the world -including the University of Leicester - in the fields of medicine, nutrition, chemistry and biology have met to share research findings and to move towards a consensus on the specific biological functions and relative potencies of the various forms of vitamin E in the human body.
  Author: Brice Boulet - Date: July 19, 2004



• Preventive Nutrition Heart Advance Product Supplement
  Cargill Health & Food Technologies (H&FT) announces that its CoroWise brand of plant sterols are featured in GNC's new Preventive Nutrition Heart Advance dietary supplement.
  Author: Gwen Morton - Date: May 29, 2005



• Smile At Dental Health!
  That double latte that you grab on your way to work might be the eye-opener that you need to launch your day. But when it comes to your teeth, a latte a day keeps the brightness away.
  Author: Sara Collin - Date: April 20, 2005



• Novartis and The Quaker Oats Company form North American joint venture in functional foods
  The Quaker Oats Company and Novartis Consumer Health, Inc. announced today that they have entered into a joint venture to form Altus Food Company, a new company, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Altus plans to develop and market functional food brands in the United States, Canada and Mexico. This represents the first time a global healthcare company and an international food marketing company have come together to create foods with health benefits covering a wide range of therapeutic areas.
  Author: Doug Murphy - Date: December 10, 2003



• Finding creatine facts to help you decide if it's for you
  With so many web sites and magazines available, getting unbiased creatine facts can be fairly difficult. Here we're trying to give you the straight goods on creatine facts, but it is always a good idea to explore as much information as possible to make an educated decision.
  Author: David Tees - Date: February 21, 2003



• Get shake it up with creatine!
  Creatine is a naturally created and is normally ingested through the foods we eat. Most of the creatine is stored in our skeletal muscles, but traces are also found in the heart and brain. Athletes use a synthetic version of the substance to increase muscle energy levels.
  Author: David Tees - Date: February 21, 2003



• Test your knowledge on dietary supplements!
  Advertised throughout the media, displayed in grocery stores and pharmacies, and promoted widely on the Internet, dietary supplements look like just another consumer product on the shelf. But are they? Take this quiz to find out how much you know about using dietary supplements safely.
  Author: Ray Maxon - Date: February 18, 2002