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With repeated exposure at high enough levels, lead can cause cognitive damage and behavioral changes in children. In most cases, lead poisoning can be treated by reducing the child's exposure and by making sure he or she eats a balanced diet with sufficient iron, calcium and vitamin C - deficiencies in these can increase the body's absorption of lead. In extreme cases of extended lead exposure, doctors use drugs called chelating agents, which bind to the lead and pull it out of the body through urine. In severe cases of prolonged poisoning, however, the cognitive and developmental damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Lead Poisoning Could Lurk in Spices | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

Into this breach has stepped the children's film festival. Like Sundance for squirts, they exist to promote and cultivate the entertainment version of beets: vitamin-rich sustenance kids are not quite sure they want to consume, no matter how delicious their parents say it is. Hipster-parent haven New York City supports a children's film festival (Brooklyn has its own), and they're popping up in other places as well. You'll mostly find them in big cities, but Asheville, N.C., had its first kids' film festival last year, as did Nantucket, Mass., and San Joaquin, Calif. Providence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sundance for Squirts | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

...boost in vitamin D will mean your liver’s return to health. Or something...

Author: By Maria Shen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Other Reasons Why Harvard Students Drink | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

Review: Perhaps not the healthiest dessert there is (apples, anyone?), but the chocolate-drizzled oranges and icy sweet fro yo create a heavenly blend of deliciousness. At least you get your daily intake of vitamin C. (Just don’t go back for seconds...

Author: By Kathryn C. Reed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Matherites Share Recipes for Healthy Dhall Meals | 3/7/2010 | See Source »

Warfarin works as a blood thinner by interfering with VKOR, a bacterial version of the human enzyme that recycles vitamin K in the liver. Through the recycling process, clotting factors are produced and secreted into the blood, piling up to act as coagulant agents...

Author: By Juliana L. Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Compound Inhibits Clotting | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

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