More research is out on resveratrol and its multiple potential health benefits. Scientists from Scotland and Singapore have unraveled a mystery that has perplexed scientists since red wine was first discovered to have health benefits: how does resveratrol control inflammation? New research published in the August 2009 print issue of The FASEB Journal not only [...]

According to Australian researchers, iodine deficiency, which can result in thyroid problems in adults and may cause mental retardation in babies and contribute disproportionately to perinatal thyroid disease and death, is on the rise in Europe and Australia. While in the developing world than 30 million children are born unprotected from iodine deficiency, and perhaps [...]

UCDenver.edu – Vitamin D plays a vital role in reducing the risk of death associated with older age, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Denver and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The research, just published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, evaluated the association between vitamin D levels [...]

HealthSystem.Virginia.edu – Noninvasive EECP can help some patients with angina. At age 76, Jackie Guild, a survivor of multiple heart attacks and strokes, has a new spring in her step and blush on her cheeks, thanks to the persistence of her daughter, Donna Dellaganna. Dellaganna credits her mother’s heightened vitality to the outpatient EECP therapy [...]

A team of French scientists have found the dose of DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) that is “just right” for preventing cardiovascular disease in healthy men. In a research report appearing in the September 2009 print issue of The FASEB Journal (FASEB J. 2009 23: 2909-2916), the scientists show that a 200 mg dose of the omega-3 [...]

SRCD.org – Research has shown that children who were breast fed as infants have superior cognitive ability compared to those fed infant formula, and it is surmised that this benefit is due to an essential fatty acid in breast milk called docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Now a new study has found that babies fed infant formula [...]