Researchers at the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University, a leading global authority on the role of vitamin C. In optimum health, forward compelling evidence that the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) of vitamin C should be raised to 200 milligrams per day for U.S adults up from its current levels of 75 mg for woman and 90mg for men. The RDA of vitamin C is less than half of what it should be scientists argue, because medical experts insist on evaluating this natural, but critical nutrient in the same way they do for pharmaceutical drugs, and consequently reach faulty conclusions.
The researchers base their recommendations on studies showing that higher levels of vitamin C could help reduce chronic health problems including heart disease, stroke, and cancer as well as underlying causal issues such as high blood pressure, chronic inflammation, poor immune response and atherosclerosis. Even at the current l;ow RDA, U.S and Canadian studies have found that a quarter to a third of the total population is marginally deficient in vitamin C and up to a fifth of those in such groups as students, smokers and older adults are severely deficient in it.
Friday, March 29, 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Battle of the Bulge
According to the American Heart Association, about one in three American kids and teens id overweight or obese today, nearly triple the rate in 1963. A new report by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation advises that if adult obesity rates continue on their current trajectories by 2030 13 states could have rates above 60 percent, 39 states above 50 percent and all 50 states above 44 percent.
A study published in tho International journal of obesity, based research at 10 universities points to the use of hormones in factory meat production as a major reason for this trend. Pesticides are another culprit; the average American is exposed to 10 to 13 different types each day via food beverages and drinking water, and nine out of 10 most commonly used are endocrine disputers linked to weight gain. Genetically modified U.S food crops also sprayed heavily with biocides. Findings presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science linked bisphenol A (BPA) - an industrial chemical contained in plastic soda, drinking and baby bottles - with abnormal estrogen function.
To win the battle of the bulge, Americans need to eat balanced diets and exercise regularly, but additional steps can further help : choose organic, grass fed meat instead of corn fed use glass instead of plastic containers for beverages and food storage, avoid canned food unless the label states BPA - free, and consume yogurt daily or take a high quality probiotic to help restore healthy intestinal flora.
A study published in tho International journal of obesity, based research at 10 universities points to the use of hormones in factory meat production as a major reason for this trend. Pesticides are another culprit; the average American is exposed to 10 to 13 different types each day via food beverages and drinking water, and nine out of 10 most commonly used are endocrine disputers linked to weight gain. Genetically modified U.S food crops also sprayed heavily with biocides. Findings presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science linked bisphenol A (BPA) - an industrial chemical contained in plastic soda, drinking and baby bottles - with abnormal estrogen function.
To win the battle of the bulge, Americans need to eat balanced diets and exercise regularly, but additional steps can further help : choose organic, grass fed meat instead of corn fed use glass instead of plastic containers for beverages and food storage, avoid canned food unless the label states BPA - free, and consume yogurt daily or take a high quality probiotic to help restore healthy intestinal flora.
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