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Monthly Archives: October 2011
IOM Report On Nutrition Guidance: The Good, The Bad, & the Ugly
A committee commissioned by the Institute of Medicine, with backing by the CDC, the FDA, and the USDA, just released its report on front-of-pack nutrition guidance. The recommendations are good in that they may help prevent the food industry from … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, conditions, Dr. David Katz, Dr. David Kessler, FDA, FMI, front-of-pack, GMA, health, healthy, institute of medicine, IOM, Katz, Kessler, news, nutrient, nutrients, nutrition, NuVal, report, USDA
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Can Your Multivitamin Kill You?
You have likely heard about a recent study, involving roughly 40,000 women over the age of 60, in which daily use of a multivitamin- and several other nutrient supplements- was associated with a higher rate of death. Along with the … Continue reading
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Tagged conditions, diet, Dr. David Katz, health, healthy, Katz, minerals, mortality, multivitamin, news, nutrient, nutrients, nutrition, risk, study, supplements, vitamins
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PSA: Yea, or nay?
I support the recommendation of the US Preventive Services Task Force against routine use of the PSA test to screen for prostate cancer. For the reasons why, see: “PSA“
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Tagged cancer, conditions, Dr. David Katz, health, healthy, Katz, news, prostate, PSA, screening, USPSTF
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