Published December 8, 2010

Reduce osteoarthritis pain by 20% in just 60 days

Do you have osteoarthritis in your knee? If so, researchers from Iran may have discovered a wonderful breakthrough for this debilitating condition.

These researchers thought that the flavonoids of the passion fruit peel might help with the inflammation in osteoarthritis of the knee. They were right!

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Published December 3, 2010

Vitamin D warnings: Ignore them

I’m sure you’ve read the news and heard the reports on vitamin D. The prestigious Institute of Medicine just upped their vitamin D recommendation from a mere 400 IU per day to a still-paltry 600 IU per day. And they didn’t stop there.

They claim most people get enough vitamin D each day. They say no one should take more than 4,000 IU each day. And they say that vitamin D testing is like “the wild, wild West.”

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Published December 2, 2010

Should you know your “calcium score”?

Wouldn’t it be great if you could predict with almost complete certainty if you were going to have a heart attack or not? Well, a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association says you might be able to. But is it really worth it?

The article says that your coronary artery calcification score can predict whether you will develop a “cardiovascular event” or not. That means either angina (heart pains) or an outright heart attack.

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