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Where would parents be without fruit juice? It tastes great, is full of vitamin C and helps children meet at least some of their daily nutritional fruit requirement. But kids these days seem to be grabbing a good thing and drinking way too much of it. Last week, for the first time, the American Academy of Pediatrics set limits on the amount of juice kids should consume. The group acted after reviewing evidence that juices are displacing other nutritious foods and may be contributing to an epidemic of obesity...
Unfortunately, the other micronutrients haven't panned out so well. It makes sense that antioxidants like vitamin E and vitamin C, which soak up cell-damaging "free-radical" molecules in the body, would protect against cell destruction. Although vitamin E looked promising in an earlier study, neither substance had an obvious effect on the Notre Dame sisters. Nor, on the other side of the equation, did mercury or aluminum in the diet, both of which had been implicated in earlier studies as possible triggers for Alzheimer...
...other hand, the study found no evidence that such antioxidants as vitamin C or E slow Alzheimer's. But these vitamins have been shown in other studies to protect against cancer and other diseases, and many doctors recommend them for anyone concerned about Alzheimer...
...have suspected that alcohol--even one glass a day--could increase a woman's chance of developing breast cancer. Now there may be a way to protect yourself, other than giving up wine with dinner. A study of 35,000 postmenopausal women shows that 400 mcg of the B vitamin folate seems to neutralize the cancer-causing effects of drinking. Where do you find folate? Dried beans, green leafy vegetables and most multivitamin pills...
...from marching ants to fire ants to bombardier beetles, I retreated from this tower. The dread of oncoming cold quickly squeezed out any scientific haughtiness I may have harbored, and I marched to CVS to buy my first bottle of Echinacea. For my entire sophomore year I supplemented my vitamin-C (a habit I could justify by appealing to the “anti-oxidant” powers of ascorbic acid) with little capsules filled with what looked like old grass clippings...