Articles by Shari Barbanel
TAP Integrative Launches Online Educational Community for Integrative Practitioners
TAP Integrative (Green Bay, WI) has announced the launch of an online educational community resource dedicated to furthering the evidence-informed and experience-based knowledge between integrative practitioners. TAPintegrative.org is a membership site designed for “on-demand” access to clinically reviewed and science-based clinical practice topics and research, leading clinical experts and to a community of integrative health ...
NY Attorney General Says Major Retailers Selling Fraudulent Supplements, NPA, CRN Respond
On February 2, the New York State attorney general’s office accused four major retailers—GNC, Target, Walgreens and Walmart—of selling fraudulent and potentially dangerous herbal supplements and demanded that they remove the products from store shelves, according to a New York Times article. According to the article, authorities said they had conducted tests on top-selling store brands of herbal ...
BPA Exposure During Pregnancy Causes Oxidative Stress in Child, Mother
Exposure to the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy can cause oxidative damage that may put the baby at risk of developing diabetes or heart disease later in life, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s journal Endocrinology. A chemical used to manufacture plastics and epoxy resins, BPA is found in ...
CRN Releases Science-based Guidelines on Iodine in Multivitamin/Mineral Supplements for Pregnancy and Lactation
Dietary supplement manufacturers should include a daily serving of at least 150 mcg of iodine in all multivitamin/mineral supplements intended for pregnant and lactating women in the U.S., the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) advises in guidelines for industry. CRN developed these guidelines in response to recommendations from authoritative medical organizations, including the American Academy ...
Emerson Ecologics Launches 2015 Emerson Grant Program
Emerson Ecologics, LLC (Manchester, NH) has announced that it is now accepting applications for The Emerson Grant. The Emerson Grant program supports the work of practitioners and promotes integrative medicine in the United States. In April 2015, Emerson Ecologics will award grants totaling $25,000 to support projects and initiatives designed to improve, expand or support ...
Life Extension Foundation Supported Trial Finds 7,000 IU Vitamin D Improves Immunological Parameters in HIV-Positive Individuals
Dr. Virginia A. Stallings and colleagues from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia published a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial in which treatment with a 7,000 IU vitamin D3 product benefited HIV-positive children and young adults. The vitamin D supplements used in the trial were provided by the Life Extension Foundation. The publication, titled “High-Dose Vitamin D3 ...
Eating Blueberries Every Day Can Lower Blood Pressure
With hypertension (HTN) affecting nearly 80 million people in the United States and cardiovascular disease (CVD) the leading cause of death, any intervention that can lower blood pressure has the potential to save lives. In a study in the current issue of the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Florida State University researchers ...
Jefferson Mindfulness Program Improves Mind-Body Health in Elders
Researchers at the Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Jefferson tested the feasibility and effectiveness of an adapted Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program in a group of elders living in a continuing-care retirement community. “Our team found that an adapted MBSR program is feasible even for a much older population than previously reported in ...
Nutrition Education May Help Prevent Breast Cancer Reoccurrence
Breast cancer is the most frequent cause of death among women worldwide, and five-year survival rates are just 58.4 percent in Brazil, lower than in many other regions. In a new study, however, researchers from Federal University of Santa Catarina provided Brazilian breast cancer patients with nutrition education and found it could benefit patients and ...
NCNM Provost Dr. Andrea Smith Elected to Serve ACAOM
The Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM) announced that Andrea C. Smith, EdD, was elected as an academic member of the Commission. The appointment of Dr. Smith, provost and vice president of Academics Affairs at National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM), is effective immediately. ACAOM is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education ...
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