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Does beta-carotene cause cancer? Will vitamin B6 damage the nerves? Can calcium weaken the kidneys? These were some of the unsettling questions raised by a story on the front page of the New York Times last week that had vitamin takers across the U.S. wondering if they--or their children--were swallowing too much of a good thing...
...long been an article of faith among health-conscious Americans that extra doses of vitamin and mineral supplements can cover a multitude of dietary sins. So it seemed like heresy last week when Jane Brody, the Times' respected health columnist, questioned the value of those supplements and the quantities they are being taken in. "There is scant evidence that vitamin and mineral supplements are beneficial [for most people]," she wrote. "Consumers are, in effect, volunteering for a vast largely unregulated experiment...
First, stock up on nuts and seeds. Nuts and seeds are high in vitamin E. And research shows that vitamin E keeps testosterone from breaking down--and pushes that male libido into high gear...
Among those of us who have resisted growing up, it's an article of faith that we can put off growing old. We work out, we eat poached salmon, we devour alternative-medicine nostrums while gobbling antioxidant vitamin supplements, just in case. We don't ask the first baby-boomer President for much--not for universal health care, not for campaign-finance purity, not even for a tax cut. But we do count on him, as the emblem of our age, not to give in to the ravages of time. He was re-elected in part because he complied...
Erythropoietin is usually the drug of choice for bloodless medicine because of its stimulative effect on red-blood-cell production. Hormones and vitamin B12 are also prescribed to encourage cell production. Doctors may employ a hyperbaric chamber to flood patients' blood with higher concentrations of oxygen so that they can better withstand surgical procedures and low blood levels, while oximetry devices and other noninvasive monitoring equipment keep close watch over oxygen levels...