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Richard van Breemen named director of Linus Pauling Institute at OSU
Oregon State University (OSU) has named Richard van Breemen as the director of the university’s Linus Pauling Institute. Dr. van Breemen, professor of pharmacy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will succeed Balz Frei as director and endowed chair of the institute, which studies the role of vitamins and other micronutrients in enhancing health ...
Millions of People With Metabolic Syndrome May Need More Vitamin E
New research has shown that people with metabolic syndrome need significantly more vitamin E—which could be a serious public health concern, in light of the millions of people who have this condition that’s often related to obesity. A study recently published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition also made it clear that conventional tests ...
U.S. Adults Get Failing Grade in Healthy Lifestyle Behavior
Only 2.7 percent of the U.S. adult population achieves all four of some basic behavioral characteristics that researchers say would constitute a “healthy lifestyle” and help protect against cardiovascular disease, a recent study concluded. In this study, researchers from Oregon State University (OSU) and the University of Mississippi examined how many adults succeed in four ...
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