Although osteoporosis appears later in life, the process begins during childhood. If there is not enough calcium and vitamin D in the diet or, in the case of vitamin D, insufficient sunlight exposure, then not enough skeletal bone is created during our schooldays. Our bones reach peak mass by the age of 30 years and thereafter decline. The rate of the decline is greatly dampened if adequate calciu...
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Vitamin C
8th Jul 2013 10:00 am
Vitamin C became famous the moment that Linus Pauling (pictured), a US professor of chemistry, said he thought that vitamin C could reduce the risk of the common cold. By this time, in the early 1970s, he had already pocketed two Nobel Prizes in chemistry and peace. He could have got a third when he was working hard to determine the structure of DNA before Watson and Crick beat him to it. So, Paul...
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Food and gout: a brief update
17th Jun 2013 10:00 am
Recently I had to review the dietary treatment of gout for a client. Gout is a common form of arthritis, yet there is very little research on the role of food despite textbooks and the web being full of dietary advice and presumptions.
What is gout?
Gout is characterised by high levels of uric acid in the blood (hyperuricaemia), and is more likely to occur in men than in women. The high levels ...
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Cuppa Tea
14th Jan 2013 10:00 am
I'm a big fan of black tea due to my English heritage, where you weren't supposed to leave the breakfast table if there was still tea in the pot. For one of my badges in Cubs I had to prove at the age of seven that I could brew the perfect cup of tea: pre-warm the pot, add x teaspoons of leaves (x = one teaspoon per person + one for the pot), add boiling water, stir, leave to brew for five minutes...
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Acid food, Alkaline food
14th May 2012 10:00 am
Should you be eating acid or alkaline foods? Let's see if I can make sense of this. We are oxygen breathing, carbon-based, mildly alkaline life forms. The pH of plasma is 7.35-7.45 and the pH inside our cells is 7.1. If they change much from these levels you will end up in hospital. The body has a number of systems to control the pH in your body (eg lungs and kidneys).
Que? What this thing pH?
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