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...wind up doing more math than you expected. Each box has a nutrition label that tells you how much of 14 vitamins and minerals is included. A Cookie Bar, for example, contains 3 mg of iron, or 30% of the daily value for a toddler. Nine Cracker Bites contain 20% of a day's iron. So your child would get 100% of the daily value for iron by eating 3 1/3 Cookie Bars, or 18 Cracker Bites plus two Cookie Bars. "Vitamin supplements are easier," says Susan B. Roberts, author of Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health (and no relation...
VITAMIN POWER Chalk up another victory for vitamin C. Researchers now think the versatile vitamin may help lower moderately elevated blood pressure. A small but well-controlled trial found that patients who take 500 mg of vitamin C daily for a month have a 9% drop in both systolic (upper) and diastolic (lower) readings. As for folks with normal blood pressure, the supplements don't alter a thing...
...First it was zinc for colds. Now studies of infants and children in developing countries show that zinc supplements can reduce the risk of pneumonia 42% and diarrhea 25%. What does the news mean for U.S. kids? They don't always get the recommended daily amount of zinc (5 mg for infants, 10 mg for preschoolers). So don't neglect zinc-rich foods like breast milk for babies and chicken and meat for older kids...
TIME LAPSE Sorry, jet-lag sufferers. A report shows that melatonin may be no better than a sugar pill in alleviating the sleepiness and disorientation of long-distance travel. Nearly 250 subjects were given either a placebo or one of two commonly used doses of melatonin (5 mg and .5 mg). Result: they all experienced similar jet-lag symptoms, and all recovered after about six days...
Although I take 250 mg of vitamin C each day, I'm pretty much a skeptic when it comes to dietary supplements. Most of the ones I've seen are basically patent medicines whose proponents, seizing on a few isolated facts about the body, tout a treatment plan that has more to do with magic than medicine. But occasionally a supplement like SAMe (pronounced sam-me) comes along that piques even my interest. It's supposed to combat depression, ease aching joints and possibly revitalize the liver. I'm not convinced these claims are true, but I think they...