Word: vitamins
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BEATING HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE Wolfing down 2.5 grams of potassium per day, about twice the average intake, can lower blood pressure almost as well as drugs do. That means eating lots of citrus fruits and leafy vegetables--or taking vitamin supplements...
...carrying out a trial to examine whether vitamin supplements reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-infection. In observational epidemiologic studies, vitamin A-deficient women were at increased risk of transmitting HIV infection to their babies compared with women who had sufficient levels of vitamin A. In a number of studies, poor status of vitamin A and other vitamins were associated with lowered immune function, possibly leading to a higher risk of transmission of the virus...
...fellow, says eat salmon, olive oil, garlic, soy sauce, ginger, broccoli. I like all that stuff. But Weil, dietary despot, also suggests eating tofu, which is organic styrofoam; drinking Japanese green tea, which tastes like water in which tadpoles have died; and popping 6,000 mg a day of vitamin C, which sours my giblets. I'll give these a miss. And, ouch, here it comes: "Moderate or eliminate intake of animal foods, booze, coffee and news...
...that's just for breakfast. In ever greater numbers, Americans are embracing self-medication: a roll-your-own approach to health care that favors home-designed, prevention-oriented vitamin and drug regimens. "Forty-five percent of the U.S. population is using vitamin and mineral supplements," says John Troup of General Nutrition Centers, the U.S.'s biggest retail supplement chain. "It's a trend that's definitely become mainstream...
Make no mistake: this is a big business. Seventy-five years after the A.M.A. called the hype surrounding vitamins a "gigantic fraud," the drug companies are racing to keep up with their increasingly independent customers. Kaups' self-care began 30 years ago, when a doctor suggested vitamin B for her recurrent headaches. "It worked," she says, "but after I read up on it, I knew I could put something together better than what the pharmaceutical company could give...