The USDA’s Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL) has removed the USDA Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) Database for Selected Foods from its website due to mounting evidence that shows the values indicating antioxidant capacity have no relevance to the effects of specific ...
Dietary supplements occupy the broad, poorly regulated space between two more-defined kinds of consumables: foods and drugs. Because they can and sometimes do provide both nutrition without eating and wellness without medicine, supplements have acquired a new name in recent years: nutraceuticals. Time journalist, John...
Scientists have successfully demonstrated a method to use vitamin B12 as a vehicle for the oral delivery of the appetite-suppressing hormone PYY, according to a study published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. The discovery may lead to PYY-laced chewing gum or an oral tablet...
At the recent USA Nutracon Conference, a supplement proven to increase cognitive performance, Cereboost from Naturex, was granted the NutrAward 2010 for the Best New Ingredient of the year.
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