Gradual increase in salt intake linked to high blood pressure

A Japanese study that followed the sodium intakes and blood pressures of healthy people confirms dietary sodium is associated with hypertension.

Vitamin D Supplementation – Be Careful, Researchers Warn

Very high blood levels of vitamin D confer no additional benefit, researchers from Johns Hopkins reported in the American Journal of Medicine.

Eat Your Fruits And Vegetables! Californians Seem To Be Listening

According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthy People 2010 objectives, adequate fruit and vegetable consumption is a national public health priority for disease prevention and maintenance of good health…

The Effects Of Celiac Disease On Bone Mineral Density Are More Pronounced In Lumbar Spine Than Femoral Neck

Patients with celiac disease are more than 4.5 times more likely to develop osteoporosis compared to healthy people in an age and gender matched cohort with no identifiable risk factors for osteoporosis, according to a study presented at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress…