Vitamins

More studies show that certain foods when eaten together help you get the maximum nutrients and better health protection than if they were consumed separately. What foods and drinks make the best combinations for your health? The following foods can help you take full advantage of vitamins and minerals from the food you eat.

Good nutrition is essential for woman's health protecting her from early ageing, cancer, osteoporosis and many other conditions. Women's nutritional needs also change with their age, life stage and overall health condition. What are the most important vitamins for women?

Can sunbathing be good for you? A new study shows that exposure to sun lowers the risk of developing blood clots.

Scientists at Lund University, Sweden conducted a twelve-year-old study to analyze the sunbathing habits of 40, 000 women from 1990.

1. Vitamins do not cure the diseases

Vitamin supplements are often believed to be a miracle cure for different illnesses including common cold, cancer, depression and heart disease. Vitamins are essential for normal development and proper metabolism. However, vitamins cannot be used instead of drugs but they are necessary during an illness when the body is deprived of nutrients. And in some cases, the additional supplements of vitamins can be harmful for health and worsen your condition.

Women, trying to protect themselves from breast cancer, have one more reason to keep to Mediterranean diet. Extra-virgin olive oil that is included in this popular diet was found to have chemicals that suppress breast cancer cells.

Vitamin supplements are taken by million of people as they are claimed to make us healthier, but the latest research showed that some vitamins may actually increase the risk of premature death.

Scientists at Copenhagen University said that healthy people, who take vitamins known as antioxidants to lower their chances of developing cancer, may do more harm than bad. It was found that these vitamins may interfere with natural body defence system and this can increase the risk of dying prematurely by 16 percent.

A study, performed by the European scientists, states that vitamin D supplements can make your life longer. The lead researcher of the study, Dr. Philippe Autier, from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, located in Lyon, France, outlined that the usual doses of vitamin D are the cause of a decreasing rate of mortality.