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...MG: There’s a kind of expectation that you have to be a concentrator in order to get into those courses, but actually that’s not at all true. We take freshmen very regularly, faculty are free to admit any person that they like into an enrollment course, and they try to build an interesting class. So it’s not an exclusive activity. I think a lot of people don’t apply to these courses simply because they assume that they can’t get in, but in fact there?...
ZINC Got zinc? A study by researchers at the Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center in North Dakota found that seventh-graders who took 20 mg of zinc--double the recommended dietary allowance--five days a week for as long as three months outperformed their peers on tests of memory, word recognition, attention and learning. Halfway around the world, a study of Bangladeshi children demonstrated the life-saving health benefits of minimal levels of this essential mineral. In a yearlong study of 1,621 children ages 2 months to 1 year, zinc supplements either prevented or lessened symptoms of pneumonia...
Colon Cancer Keeping colon cancer away may be as simple as taking a calcium supplement. One study reported that patients taking 1,200 mg of the mineral daily for four years had 36% fewer colon polyps, even five years after the trial ended, than those who didn't take calcium. In a separate study, women taking more than 800 mg of calcium every day reduced their risk of colorectal cancer as much...
...salt levels since 1979 have “failed miserably.” Referring to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the petition states that the average daily sodium consumption is substantially higher than recommended and has increased over the past 25 years, rising from about 2,800 mg in 1976–80 to about 3,400 mg in 1999–2000. The petition also refers to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005, jointly released by the Department for Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture, which estimates that 75 percent of daily sodium comes...
...prone to metabolic syndrome, take alpha-lipoic acid, 100 mg to 400 mg...