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Friday Favorites: Can Velvet Beans or Fava Beans Help Treat Parkinson’s Disease?
Since Parkinson’s is caused by a dopamine deficiency in the brain, what if we ate foods rich in the dopamine precursor levodopa?
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New Vitamin B12 Test
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Daily Source of Vitamin B12
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Cheapest Source of Vitamin B12
Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) supplementation can cost as little as $2 a year.
Safest Source of B12
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Vitamin B12 Recommendation Change
Based on two biomarkers of functional vitamin B12 (cobalamin) status, B12 recommendations formulated more than...
Plant-Based Atkins Diet
Harvard study found that men and women eating low carb diets live significantly shorter lives,...
Atkins Diet: Trouble Keeping It Up
A case report in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly Journal...
Bulking Up on Antioxidants
Even when fiber and fruit and vegetable intake are kept constant, choosing foods richer in...
The Power of NO
Antioxidants protect NO synthase—the enzyme that produces the artery-relaxing signal, nitric oxide. This may explain...
Anti-Inflammatory Antioxidants
Even when choosing the same quantity of fruits and vegetables, those making higher antioxidant choices...
