Local doc asks: Are you getting enough magnesium?

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170225/entlife/170229489/

Vitamins Gone Gummy, or Dummy?

I think this piece really does the public a disservice. Gummy vitamins are added sugar, plain and simple. The fact that people need mask supplements in candy is diametrically opposed to what supplements represent. Here are a few other things the reporters may not have thought of when stating that gummies make us more apt to take our vitamins.

1. Consistently consuming candy, whether or not they contain vitamins, feeds the brain's addiction to sugar. Allowing the brain to get that fix every day only increases the desire for more products with added sugar.
2. The sweeteners in gummy vitamins can reduce the effectiveness of the vitamins and minerals in the product. Sweeteners alter gut microbia in a negative way because they suppress beneficial bacteria. Beneficial gut microbes help the vitamins and minerals be absorbed. Pathogenic gut microbes do not.
3. Artificial sweeteners in gummy vitamins are even worse. They still activate the brain's sugar receptors. In addition, they are chemicals which the body has to deal with excreting, instead of dealing with absorbing the vitamins and minerals.
4. Most gummy vitamins are loaded with artificial fillers.

There are only a few gummy products that contain natural, non-caloric sweeteners such as inulin, lo han, and stevia. Unfortunately, most people do not care for the taste, which is why there are so few of them on the market.

In our honest opinion, we would rather our clients take no supplements at all than consume sugar sweetened or artificially sweetened gummy vitamins.

RECALL: Potential Foreign Matter (Glass) in Trader Joes Unsweetened Apple Sauce Products

http://www.traderjoes.com/announcement/recall-potential-foreign-matter-glass-in-unsweetened-apple-sauce-products

The best medicine doctors don't tell you about

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/02/24/food-is-medicine-doctors-need-training-financial-incentives-column/97696874/

How to Meditate

https://www.nytimes.com/well/guides/how-to-meditate

Charter for CSAs in the USA and Canada

http://csaday.info/csa-charter/

Testosterone Therapy: Do Negatives Outweigh Positives?

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2017/february/testosterone-treatment-improves-bone-density-and-anemia-may-lead-to-cardiac-risk

EPA-Monsanto collusion raised in cancer lawsuits

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carey-gillam/questions-about-epa-monsa_b_14727648.html

Fasting diet lowers risks for major diseases

https://pressroom.usc.edu/scientifically-designed-fasting-diet-lowers-risks-for-major-diseases/

Grocery Industry Launches New Initiative to Reduce Consumer Confusion on Product Date Labels

http://www.gmaonline.org/news-events/newsroom/grocery-industry-launches-new-initiative-to-reduce-consumer-confusion-on-pr/

Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections

http://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583

The US is making a big shift away from factory farming

http://www.businessinsider.com/factory-farming-on-the-decline-2017-2

Here's what scientists say is the perfect workweek

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/02/10/heres-what-scientists-say-perfect-work-week/97739498/

Lower back pain: take two aspirin and DON'T call me in the morning.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/health/lower-back-pain-surgery-guidelines.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fhealth

Vitamin B12: Power broker to the microbes

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/dnnl-vbp012517.php

All Metagenics Probiotics Are Gluten-Free

http://t.lt02.net/q/M4hU6IbVJyH_wzjnwToQVYjBHpQGCsMq3nbVIL_CxpVbOokQmJtZ2buyn

Extra Calories From Coffee and Tea Are Bountiful

https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/457582

The food and beverage industry is marketing our children and youth to death

http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/heart--stroke---the-food-and-beverage-industry-is-marketing-our-children-and-youth-to-death-612371233.html