Vitamins, essential to life, are thirteen organic compounds that perform dozens of vital jobs in the body. Vitamin entered our vocabulary only in 1912, when the first one thiamin or B1 was isolated. Find out all about vitamins and supplements.
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  • Dietary Supplements - What are They?
    by Dr. Gary Farr 6/27/2003
    If you take a vitamin pill each day, you are taking a dietary supplement. That is, you are adding something to your diet of foods, most likely in an attempt to make up for a less than perfect diet, to promote good health, or to help speed healing when illness strikes. Dietary supplements are also prescribed for vitamin or mineral deficiencies such as iron for anemia or vitamin supplements for pregnant women and small children.

  • Folate Deficiency Linked to Parkinson's
    by Dr. Gary Farr 2/2/2003
    The Journal of January Neurochemistry has stated that a diet that contains inadequate amounts of the B vitamin folate may raise the risk of Parkinson's disease.

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    by Dr. Gary Farr 7/22/2003
    Sign up for our FREE health newsletter from BecomeHealthyNow.com. The Healthy newsletter brings the latest research, news and ideas you can use, fun mini-quizzes and a listing of the live events and happenings on the BecomeHealthyNow sites and communities. You'll always be up to date on current health topics as the BecomeHealthyNow.com web site is continually updated.

  • Health Survey
    by Dr. Gary Farr 7/22/2003
    The health survey finds out about the state of your health. You may discover things about your health you didn't know before. This increased awareness of your health can help you take the appropriate action to improve the state of your body's function.

  • Nutirtion Glossary
    by Dr. Gary Farr 9/10/2006
    From vitamin A to vitamin Z, here's a detailed list of what vitamins, minerals and other nutrients do in the body, and where you'll find them.

  • Synthetic vs. Natural Supplements - Is There a Difference?
    by Dr. Gary Farr 9/9/2011
    There isn't a much more debated topic in the area of nutrition than the synthetic vs. natural vitamin debate. Actually the real culprit behind most of the false information is the Food and Drug Administration, the pharmaceutical industry, and the food producers.

  • The Comprehensive Thyroid Assessment
    by Dr. Gary Farr 2/5/2007
    The Comprehensive Thyroid Assessment is a thorough analysis of thyroid hormone metabolism, including central thyroid gland regulation and activity, thyroid production and secretion, peripheral thyroid conversion, and thyroid autoimmunity. This test allows the practitioner to pinpoint common imbalances that underlie a broad spectrum of chronic illness.

  • What are Vitamins?
    by Dr. Gary Farr 9/8/2011
    Essential to life, these thirteen organic compounds perform dozens of vital jobs in the body. Vitamin entered our vocabulary only in 1912, when the first one thiamin or B1 was isolated. We now know that some of the devastating diseases of the past beriberi, rickets, scurvy were nothing more than acute vitamin deficiencies. Read more . . .

  • Why You Should NOT Depend on the RDA
    by Dr. Gary Farr 7/8/2003
    The first Recommended Dietary Allowances were established in the United States in the 1940s to provide standards for good nutrition. The allowances were not considered permanent, but rather recommendations based on the best available scientific knowledge. Since 1943 the RDAs have been revised approximately every five years as new data became available. In 1985, the RDAs came under attack by segments of the scientific and medical community as not serving the needs for establishing optimal nutrition.

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