Vitamin Squad

is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:
Preoperative cardiac stress testing associated with improved one year survival and length of hospital stay if RCRI higher than 1 http://bit.ly/9WTjxQ
Among Internet users, 5% participated in online support group, 7% reported blogging, 23% used a social networking site http://bit.ly/c1rsRt
Stillbirth Linked To Gum Disease In Pregnant Mothers http://bit.ly/bPGsdW
Higher Ambulatory Care Co-payments Decrease Outpatient …

Other stories we’ve been reading:
More high school athletes are using fitness supplements with knowledge of their harmful effects. Parents don’t have to be fit in order for their kids to be fit – supporting your kids’ physical activity is what motivates them to be physically fit.
Scheduling recess before lunch is helping students and teacher alike. Menus with calorie listings have parents picking healthier options for their kids but not necessarily for themselves.
Parents who feel burned out at work are more likely to have kids who feel burned out at school. …

Authors: Tsourounis C, Bent S
PMID: 20107446 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics)

(NaturalNews) Millions of people suffer from colds, flu and stomach upset every year. Research is showing that this could be caused by a lack of good bacteria in your stomach. Fortunately, there are supplements you can take to increase the amount of good bacteria and improve your health.It’s strange to think that you can treat and even prevent illness with bacteria, but it’s true. Your body contains trillions of bacteria – some are good and some are bad. When the number of good bacteria starts to decrease due to antibiotics …

UNICEF and the International Zinc Association (IZA) announced the launch of the “Zinc Saves Kids” campaign. The initiative will raise funds to support UNICEF’s zinc supplementation programs for children in developing countries. The provision of zinc supplements for children suffering from diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria can aid a quick recovery, prevent future episodes and save the lives of children. At a meeting during the World Economic Forum, Don Lindsay, Chairman of the IZA and President and CEO of Teck Resources, presented UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman with a check for …

The Merseyside Skeptics Society (MSS) today carried out their planned mass overdose of homeopathic medications outside Boots chemist shops throughout England and Scotland. Homeopathy is a branch of alternative medicine based upon taking extremely dilute preparations of substances which — in larger doses — cause symptoms similar to those that the patient is experiencing.  Some proponents claim that although their medications are extremely dilute — sometimes to the point of containing no medicine at all — the process of serial dilutions changes water in ways that are beneficial.  In a …

Protesters staged a mass ‘overdose’ of homeopathic remedies yesterday but,
asks Laura Donnelly, what did they prove? (Source: Telegraph Health)

Demonstrators gather outside branches of Boots in Scotland and England to swallow entire bottles of homeopathy tablets. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)

CAMPAIGNERS in Edinburgh are set to take part in a “mass overdose” as part of a national campaign against retailer Boots for selling homeopathy treatments. (Source: Scotsman.com News – Health)

A new study has found that Vitamin D, readily available in supplements or cod liver oil, can counter the effects of Crohn’s disease. John White, an endocrinologist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, led a team of scientists from McGill University and the Université de Montréal who present their findings about the inflammatory bowel disease in the latest Journal of Biological Chemistry. “Our data suggests, for the first time, that Vitamin D deficiency can contribute to Crohn’s disease,” says Dr… (Source: Health News from Medical News …