Word: vitaminic
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...investigators have yet to determine exactly what killed the animals. Lechuza's Argentine captain, Juan Martín Nero, told the Buenos Aires daily La Nación this morning he believed that tainted Biodyl, a vitamin supplement he said the team regularly gives its horses before matches to ward off exhaustion, was the culprit. "There were five [Lechuza] horses who were not given the vitamin," Nero told La Nación, "and they're the only ones that are fine." Nero insisted in the interview that Biodyl is "nothing prohibited." But he's wrong. It turns out, the Food...
...garden, eat your fill and then store whatever is left. Sales of canning and freezing supplies rose 15% during the first three months of the year compared with the same period last year. Cough- and cold-remedy sales are down 9% because you can make your own chicken soup; vitamin sales are up, maybe because you hope you won't need to. Common sense is back in style, meaning we're less willing to buy what we can have for free: bottled-water sales have dropped 10%. The 137-year-old Los Angeles public library system set record highs...
...unemployment rate inches toward double digits, more Americans are left without health insurance and are looking for affordable alternatives in the supplement aisle. Vitamin sales rose nearly 8% this winter over the same period a year ago, according to the Chicago-based market-research firm Information Resources Inc., while the national chain Vitamin Shoppe reported a 20% surge in new customers seeking cheap ways to prevent illness and avoid expensive treatment...
...dairy, which is absolutely essential for our health. You cannot replace it with vegetables or soya. The French board for nutrition and health advises the consumption of three helpings of dairy products a day, and four for children, adolescents and the elderly. Indeed, dairy contains the calcium, proteins and vitamin D our body needs, especially at certain times of life. It is dangerous to make people believe that they can do without them, for the specious reason that it could hurt the planet. Anne-Sarah Bouglé, BAYEUX, FRANCE
...recent study conducted by researchers at Harvard-affiliated hospitals and the University of Colorado found that people with low levels of vitamin D are 40 percent more likely to report respiratory infections such as colds and flu. The study analyzed data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, in which 19,000 participants were tested for their blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D—a precursor of the vitamin that is considered the best measure of its concentration. Study participants with the lowest vitamin D blood levels were found to be much more likely to report having...