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...VITAMIN E and stay perky? Studies on mice suggest that the nutrient, which is already thought to ward off cancer and heart disease, may also slow aging of the brain and the immune system...
...average rate. This phenomenon isn't limited to vitamin E. Two major studies released earlier this year--and reconfirmed in last week's New England Journal--showed that beta-carotene pills don't promote good health the way beta-carotene-rich foods (like carrots) do. Why should the same nutrient work when in food and not when in pills? The leading theory is that vitamins need other natural chemicals to activate them or help them efficiently enter the body's cells...
...time to toss the beta carotene pills. In the second slam this year, scientists who studied 1,800 people over a decade found that daily supplements do nothing to lower the chances of dying from cancer or cardiovascular disease. Still, eating fruits and vegetables rich in the nutrient appears to reduce the risk of disease; researchers now suspect that this is owing to an overall healthy diet and not to beta carotene...
Flour and other grain products are now required to be fortified with folic acid, a nutrient that reduces the risk of neural-tube birth defects like spina bifida. About 2,500 infants are born each year with such defects, which occur in the fetus before most women know they are pregnant...
When the program began in September 1993, Dining Services invested $15,000 in a computer program containing the complete database of the United States Dietary Association's food composition tables, Berry says. The program allows Dining Services to analyze its recipes for 38 nutrient values...