Word: vitaminic
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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...
...kidneys; diabetes; a weakened immune system; or if you live with or care for an elderly person. It'll take two weeks for any appreciable protection to build up, and some areas have already run out of vaccine. In the meantime, wash your hands a lot and pop some vitamin C. It may not keep Mr. Flu from knocking on your door, but it can't hurt...
...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...
...over $15 for a month's supply of St. John's wort than pony up for a doctor's visit and a prescription for Zoloft. But are all things actually equal? Should the makers of so-called dietary supplements - the myriad capsules, pills and potions found at your local Vitamin Shoppe - be permitted to tout the health benefits of their products without being subject to the FDA review process? And can these supplements be thought of as cures for disease? These are the questions raging around the $6 billion-a-year dietary supplement industry. And supplement manufacturers got a mixed...
...other words, the next time you go to the store, desperately searching for a vial of herbs to ease your way through say, the rigors of tax preparation, you might find labels that read: "Vitamin ZZZZ: Helps You Relax." You won't, however, find supplements claiming to cure your impending sleeplessness or panic attacks. Likewise, you'll find products that "maintain memory function," but nothing that claims to reverse serious memory loss. And even though some products' claims can make those herbs seem awfully tempting, TIME medical writer Christine Gorman warns, "the watchword for consumers is caveat emptor. People have...