Well, technically we only “prove” things in math and logic, when we assume our premises. But the most recent study on vitamin D and the flu, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, gets as close to proving anything as we can get in nutritional and medical science. Researchers from Japan conducted a double-blind, …
Fat-Soluble Vitamins A D and K
More Attacks on Vitamin A
New post over at Mother Nature Obeyed: More Attacks on Vitamin A And an addendum: Further Questions on Vitamin A
Weston Price’s Activator X — Cure for Cancer?
Those of you reading The Daily Lipid from my web site, Cholesterol-And-Health.Com might also be interested in reading my other blog on the Weston A. Price Foundation’s web site, Mother Nature Obeyed. The title is taken from the conclusion with which Price ended his epic work Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: “Life in all its fullness …
The Women’s Health Initiative Confirms That Vitamin A Intakes Are Only Associated With Osteoporosis At Low Vitamin D Intakes
The Winter 2005/Spring 2006 issue of Wise Traditions carried my article on vitamin A and osteoporosis, in which I argued that vitamin A only contributes to osteoporosis when vitamin D intakes are very low. I suggested that vitamin A intakes would not be correlated with osteoporosis risk in people consuming adequate vitamin D. This prediction …
Tufts University Confirms That Vitamin A Protects Against Vitamin D Toxicity by Curbing Excess Production of Vitamin K-Dependent Proteins
Tufts University confirmed my hypothesis that vitamin A protects against vitamin D’s induction of renal calcification (kidney stones) by normalizing the production of vitamin K-dependent proteins in December, 2008, without citing my hypothesis or telling me they had confirmed it. I am, of course, very grateful that they thought it significant enough to investigate. I …
The Incredible, Edible Egg Yolk
Ten years ago, someone who cared about their health would likely eat egg whites and throw the yolks away because they were afraid their cholesterol content would cause heart disease. Now that the consensus against cholesterol is crumbling, we are no longer so fearful of egg yolks. But did you know that egg yolks are …