Vitamin D overdoses
11 July 2022
I got into a conversation with some people on Twitter over this past weekend, after commenting on an article about people overdosing on vitamin D.
Articles tagged with "vitamin"
Medical Myths
18 August 2020
Here are some common medical myths that are easy to dispel:
GMO Bananas may save lives
16 July 2017
I'm hoping that the anti-GMO crowd don't sink the new GMO banana before it has a chance to be properly tested. The banana has had genes inserted that allow it to create alpha and beta carotenes, which allow our bodies to create vitamin A, which should help some of the quarter of a million children who die every year due to a lack of the vitamin.
The winter blues
1 August 2015
Ahh, winter. The season when I stare forlornly out the window, looking at the rain and wind, my pockets filled to the brim with tissues, wondering how it can be that there are so many brainy people in the world and we still haven't found a cure for the common cold.
Natural product, unnatural practice
1 May 2013
Vitamin C is essential to human health, but our understanding of its role has been perverted by practitioners of 'alternative' medicine.
Newsfront
1 February 2012
The NZ Herald (10-14 January) must have been having trouble filling its pages during the silly season, looking at its recent series on alternative therapies.
Seeing what you want to believe
1 February 2012
Spoiler alert: Don't read if you haven't seen the film_ Contagion _(which I highly recommend) but want to.
Anti-oxidants: the key to nutritional success?
1 August 2008
Extravagant claims are often made for the health-giving effects of anti-oxidants in the foods we eat. But sorting out the truth from the hype is not at all easy.
Hokum Locum
1 August 2004
A drug company has been perplexed at a shortage of Vitamin B12 created by a surge in use. A spokesman for the company said "doctors had so far failed to come up with a convincing explanation" and "Vitamin B12 was also used to treat chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and as a vitamin booster."
Physical and Financial Health?
1 November 1993
On Thursday, 19 August 1993, the Christchurch Press carried a full-page advertisement for the initial New Zealand opening of the "Matrol Opportunity".
Food Fads — Food Follies
1 August 1991
Is a high-fibre, cholesterol-free, non-dairy diet the answer to one's health problems? It may be for some, but for others it can pose a downright danger.