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1MD Nutrition Marks Fourth Year of Giving Tuesday Partnership With Vitamin Angels
1MD Nutrition (Irvine, CA) will offer up to 50 percent discounts and be donating 5 percent of all sales site wide on Giving Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025 to address women and children malnutrition in underserved communities worldwide.† The fifth year that 1MD has earmarked Giving Tuesday to raise money for this cause, the brand is ...
Exercise of Any Kind Boosts Brainpower At Any Age
Whether it’s an early morning jog, or a touch of Tai Chi, groundbreaking research from the University of South Australia (UniSA) shows that any form of exercise can significantly boost brain function and memory across children, adults and older adults. In the largest, most comprehensive umbrella review to date, researchers found that regular exercise improves ...
Child’s Play
Parents will bring their kids to you for guidance to keep their little ones healthy, happy and feeling their rightful place post-COVID. Kids for the most part are really cute and fun, especially when they are lively and healthy. And back in the day, Gen X-ers and older Millennials were given Flintstones chewable multivitamins and ...
Obese and Overweight Children at Risk of Iron Deficiency
Children and young people who are overweight or obese are at significantly higher risk of iron deficiency, according to a study by nutritional scientists at the University of Leeds. Researchers from the School of Food Science and Nutrition examined thousands of medical studies from 44 countries involving people under the age of 25 where levels ...
IFM Announces its 2024 Annual International Conference
The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) has announced its 2024 Annual International Conference (AIC), Repair, Restore, Regenerate: Healing of the Micro and the Macro Through Functional Medicine happening May 29-June 1, 2024, at the Bellagio Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, NV. A limited livestream will also be available to ensure health care providers from all care settings ...
B12 Vitamins Increase the Presence of the Micronutrient in Mothers’ Breast Milk
Babies and children need vitamins, including vitamin B12, to help their brains and bodies develop and grow. Babies get B12 from their mothers and can have low levels of B12 if their mothers had low vitamin levels during pregnancy and breastfeeding. The vitamin B12 levels of infants strongly depend on maternal levels. Adequacy of vitamin ...
Bringing Food as Medicine to Schools and Children
In February 2023, the Naturally Well team from the Institute for Natural Medicine (INM) went back to school with a visit to the EJE Academies Charter School (EJEA) in El Cajon, CA. The East San Diego school prepares students from diverse populations for higher education and for community leadership. Kimberly Lord Stewart, director of Naturally ...
Study Reports Elevated levels of Toxic Metals in Some Mixed-fruit Juices and Soft Drinks
A new study conducted by researchers at Tulane University found that some commonly consumed beverages contained levels of toxic metals that exceed federal drinking water standards. According to researchers, five of the 60 beverages tested contained levels of a toxic metal above federal drinking water standards. Two mixed juices had levels of arsenic above the ...
Vaidya. Jayarajan Kodikannath
Vaidya. Jayarajan Kodikannath is an internationally renowned ayurvedic scholar, author, researcher, educator and keynote speaker with more than two decades of ayurvedic clinical experience in India and the U.S. He is currently the CEO and chief ayurveda consultant of Kerala Ayurveda USA and president of National Ayurvedic Medical Association in the U.S. “Dr. J,” as ...
NPA Responds to Report of Increased, Unintentional Pediatric Melatonin Ingestion
Over the past decade and particularly since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of melatonin supplements to address sleep issues has increased significantly by both adults and children. On Thursday, June 3, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a 10-year study that found a sharp increase in the use of ...
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