Vitamins & Your Health
Find out how specific vitamins support different aspects of your physical and mental health. Our articles connect nutritional science to your wellbeing and explain prevention of deficiency-related issues.
Can a Vitamin D Deficiency Lead to Diabetes?
Many people are unaware of the importance of vitamin D and do not know where to find it, what is does or how we know when we are getting enough. This vitamin...
Can Vitamin D Prevent Dementia?
Dementia is a disease of older people, and symptoms include confusion, memory loss, distress, depression, and in some cases, psychosis. Researchers are looki...
Can Vitamin Supplements Damage Your Health?
When most people think of vitamin supplements they recognise their benefits immediately and believe them to be a entirely safe method of ensuring the body is...
Can Vitamins Prevent Cancer?
There have been a lot of clinical studies looking at the effects of vitamins and cancer. The results can seem to be rather confusing, but it seems that some...
Can Vitamins Prevent Colds?
In the 1970s, a scientist called Linus Pauling published a number of books about vitamin C, raising the theory that very high doses (megadoses) of vitamin C...
Do You Need More Vitamins When You Are Ill?
Eating a healthy and balanced diet is important when people are ill – it can be especially important when people are ill, to help them get better more quic...
Essential Vitamins For Winter Health
As the days get colder have you ever noticed that some people catch every bug that’s doing the rounds and other people are always bursting with energy? Alt...
Folic Acid-Why Do We Need It & Where is it Found?
Folic Acid It is well documented that folic acid, or folate as it also known as, is good for health, especially when pregnant, but many people do not realise...
Preventing Anaemia
Anaemia can be a dangerous disorder to suffer from and can be prevented in most cases. It is caused by a deficiency in red blood cell production or because o...
The Role of Vitamins and Rickets
The Role Of Vitamins And Rickets Diet and nutrition are essential for good health and the role of vitamins and minerals have been well researched and are now...
The Role of Vitamins and Scurvy
The Role Of Vitamins And Scurvy Scurvy is often associated as being a disease of the ‘olden’ days and indeed it is a lot less common in modern society as...
Vitamin B6 and PMS
Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS – also know as Premenstrual Tension or PMT) is a set of symptoms that occur in the week or two leading up to menstruation (perio...
Vitamin E Rich Diet: Reduce Risk of Alzheimer's?
Alzheimer's disease is a form of dementia, and leads to increasing levels of confusion and memory loss. In Alzheimer's disease, plaques and tangles form in t...
Vitamins and Your Eyes
Making sure we eat sufficient quantities of important vitamins is essential for our physical health and fitness. But vitamins do much more than build strong...
Vitamins and Your Hair
When it comes to looking and feeling good most of us long for silky, shiny hair – in abundance! So whether you’re losing your hair or worried about its a...
Vitamins and Your Heart
We all know that keeping strong and healthy means getting enough essential vitamins every day. But there’s little more important to leading a long active a...
Vitamins and Your Skin
Making sure we eat enough vitamins is essential for fitness and good health. As the biggest organ in your body your skin needs plenty of nutrition to keep it...
Vitamins for Stronger Teeth and Bones
Vitamins A, C, D and K are all essential for the formation of strong teeth and bones in children, and to keep teeth and bones healthy in adults. Because of t...
What a Vitamin Deficiency Can Mean to Your Health
Vitamins and nutrient are essential to health and exist in order for our natural bodily functions to carry out their jobs. It is possible however, for a numb...
What are Superfruits?
What Are Superfruits? Fairly self-explanatory, the word ‘superfruit’ was a name given to a group of fruits that are considered to be especially good for...
What is an RDA?
Whenever we read about vitamins or consider taking a vitamin supplement the term RDA crops up over and over again. So what does it stand for and what is its...