Norwegian authorities have conducted a safety review of omega-3 forms EPA and DHA and found no adverse effects up to levels as high as 6.9g per day for certain conditions – a level far in excess of recent German recommendations of 1.5g/day.
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ScienceDaily (July 4, 2011) — Healthy, middle-aged smokers who take the most popular smoking cessation drug on the market have a 72 percent increased risk of being hospitalized with a heart attack or other serious heart problems compared to those taking a placebo, a Johns Hopkins-led study suggests. “People want to quit smoking to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease but in this case they’re taking a drug that increases the risk for the very problems they’re trying to avoid,” says Sonal Singh, M.D., M.P.H., an assistant professor of general internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the lead author of the research. In the study, described in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Singh and his...
In the third part of our series on weight management, NutraIngredients looks at how nutritional approaches may boost body-shaping, and how our gut microflora may be the future of weight management. A stand-out ingredient is CLA.
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ScienceDaily (Dec. 6, 2010) — Non-smokers who regularly breathe in others’ tobacco smoke are at increased risk of some degree of hearing loss, reveals research published online in Tobacco Control.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio–Consuming fish oil supplements reduced inflammation and anxiety in medical students studying at the Ohio State University. The supplements used in the study were about four or five times the amount of fish oil found in daily serving of salmon, leading credibility to using supplements to get effective doses of omega-3s in the diet rather than relying on fish dinners.
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