News tagged with multivitamin

Vitamins doing gymnastics: Scientists capture first full image of vitamin B12 in action

You see it listed on the side of your cereal box and your multivitamin bottle. It's vitamin B12, part of a nutritious diet like all those other vitamins and minerals.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Are Multivitamins Worth the Money?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nowadays, there seems to be a pill for everything, and multivitamins are getting a reputation of being a quick fix for nutrition and overall healthy living. But University of Cincinnati Physicians ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (14) | comments 0

The case for multivitamins

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCI's Frances Jurnak explains how daily supplements, if taken correctly, can benefit lifelong health.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Multivitamin use not associated with women's risk of cancer, heart disease or death

Postmenopausal women who take multivitamins appear to have the same risk of most common cancers, cardiovascular disease or dying of any cause as women who do not take multivitamin supplements, according to a report in the ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 6

Many middle-aged and older Americans not getting adequate nutrition

Micronutrients such as calcium, magnesium, potassium and vitamin C play essential roles in maintaining health. As older adults tend to reduce their food intake as they age, there is concern that deficits in these micronutrients ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 01, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

BUSM researchers encourage use of potassium iodide

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) are strongly encouraging prenatal vitamin manufacturers to use only potassium iodide and not other sources of iodine in their products. According to the researchers, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Multivitamin use doesn't impact colon cancer outcomes

Patients with colon cancer who used multivitamins during and after being treated with post-surgical chemotherapy did not reduce the risk of the cancer returning or their dying from it, according to researchers at Dana-Farber ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Multivitamins are no magic bullet panacea

We've been told for years that popping a multivitamin will make us healthier and prolong our lives, but a major study recently found that daily multivitamins don't make a difference in the rate of breast or colon cancer, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Multivitamin

A multivitamin is a preparation intended to supplement a human diet with vitamins, dietary minerals, and other nutritional elements. Such preparations are available in the form of tablets, capsules, pastilles, powders, liquids, and injectable formulations. Other than injectable formulations, which are only available and administered under medical supervision, multivitamins are recognized by the Codex Alimentarius Commission (the United Nations' authority on food standards) as a category of food. Multivitamin supplements are commonly provided in combination with dietary minerals. A multivitamin/mineral supplement is defined in the United States as a supplement containing 3 or more vitamins and minerals that does not include herbs, hormones, or drugs, where each vitamin and mineral is included at a dose below the tolerable upper level, as determined by the Food and Drug Board, and does not present a risk of adverse health effects. The terms multivitamin and multimineral are often used interchangeably. There is no scientific definition for either.

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