Green tea extract improves glucose control in borderline diabetics

The August, 2008 issue of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition published the discovery of researchers in Japan that supplementing the diet with green tea extract improves fasting hemoglobin A1c, a blood marker that is regularly tested in diabetics to assess long term glucose control. Read more

Where Are The Bodies? - The Exceptional Safety of Nutritional Supplements

Canadian Health Authorities are ready to regulate supplements in a similar way as pharmaceutical drugs, but resistance is rallying around a law proposal - Bill C 420 - which would clearly define and distinguish supplements from dangerous drugs, suggesting that supplements are more close to foods than medicines and should therefore be regulated in a similar way as food products. ... Continue Reading

Selenium may protect against bladder cancer

Boosting selenium levels may help to significantly reduce a woman’s risk of developing Bladder cancer, new research suggests. ... Continue Reading