Category: Nutrition

Garden of Life® Enters Sports Nutrition Arena with Launch of Garden of Life SPORT, the Cleanest Performance Line Ever

Garden of Life®, the leader and innovator in USDA Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified nutritional products and the No. 1 protein brand for five straight years in the natural channel1, expands into the sports nutrition arena with the launch of Garden of Life SPORT, a line of nutritional products that...

Kick-Start Your Supplement Regimen During National Nutrition Month

National Nutrition Month encourages Americans to examine their approach to overall nutrition, including making informed choices and developing healthy habits for diet and exercise. Supplementing your healthy lifestyle with essential vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients to optimize your overall nutritional status safeguards your body against harmful deficiencies. “Eating a diet...

Hidden Salt: How Everyday Foods Harm You

It’s in your bread. Your cheese. Your soup. It’s everywhere, and it could be killing you. What is it? Salt. the American Academy of Family Physicians is spreading the word and offering resources to help consumers lower their daily intake of “hidden” salt in the foods they eat. Why? Because...

More than Half of College Football Athletes Have Inadequate Levels of Vitamin D – Deficiency Linked to Muscle Injuries

More than half of college football athletes participating in the NFL Combine had inadequate levels of vitamin D, and this left them more susceptible to muscle injuries, according to a study at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS). “Vitamin D has been shown to play a role in muscle function and...

Indigenous South Americans With Healthiest Arteries of Any Population Ever Studied Offer Healthy Lifestyle Clues

The Tsimane people—a forager-horticulturalist population of the Bolivian Amazon—have the lowest reported levels of vascular aging for any population, with coronary atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) being five times less common than in the U.S., according to a study published today in The Lancet and presented at the American College...

Despite the known role of vitamin D in preventing osteoporosis and related fractures, less than half of elderly hip fracture patients take supplements

Despite national recommendations for daily vitamin D intake, a new study presented today at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) found that just 45.7 percent of patients reported consistently taking vitamin D supplements following a hip fracture, a known treatment and preventative strategy for...