Hollywood, magazines and fashion models seem to make a statement — and standard — that being skinny is beautiful.  Many young girls who want to look attractive seem to think...

Just twenty years ago, vitamin-popping was still held by the mainstream medical community as a worthless fad. But studies now show we are woefully vitamin deficient. For example, two USDA...

Osteoporosis is Not a Calcium Deficiency: What One Doctor Has to Say “Grandma fell and broke her hip,” is the fateful news we hate to hear. Even with a hip...

Vitamin K is for Blood "Klotting" and Bone Health According to Dr. Cees Vermeer, one of the world’s top researchers in the field of vitamin K, nearly everyone is deficient...

updated August, 2016 What is Vitamin D? Vitamin D is a steroid hormone, a group of fat-soluble prohormones, which encourages the absorption and metabolism of calcium and phosphorous. There are two...

What you eat can literally turn the dial-up or down when it comes to your thyroid. This little butterfly shaped gland controls your body’s metabolism and it is very particular...

One of the biggest issues over the past hundred years since the discovery that specific nutrient deficiencies can cause disease is whether we should be taking vitamins every day.  The...

Americans spend $30 billion yearly on vitamins and supplements (1); globally, $68 billion sold (2). With these figures, one might be tempted to think we have health to go along...

Just twenty years ago, vitamin popping was still held by the mainstream medical community as a worthless fad. But studies now show we are woefully vitamin deficient. For example, two...

Osteoporosis is the condition marked by frail, weak bones that have lost their density over time. But, time is not the only enemy. Osteoporosis can be accelerated by a poor...

Can vitamin supplements really undo a poor diet? Many of us like to think so. Even the most intelligent, health conscious people believe that their one-a-day “miracle” vitamin will make...