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Four Corners reporter Geoff Thompson says a big marketing budget helps drive the demand for supplements and multivitamins in Australia.
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| UpdatedSeventy per cent of Australians take a vitamin or other dietary supplement, despite evidence that they are only useful for treating specific deficiencies.
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| UpdatedNearly a third of Australian pharmacists are recommending complementary medicine products that are not supported by hard evidence — so why are chemists stocking them and do your herbal supplements actually work?
Topics: vitamins, health, diet-and-nutrition, pharmaceuticals, lifestyle-and-leisure, doctors-and-medical-professionals, australia
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| UpdatedCranberry is a popular treatment for urinary tract infections. The thing is, on the whole, research fails to find any evidence cranberry works.
Topics: vitamins, womens-health, health, australia
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Children with a vitamin D deficiency are more likely to develop asthma, according to Perth medical researchers, who say the vitamin can help "promote tolerance to allergens".
Topics: asthma, diseases-and-disorders, health, vitamins, diet-and-nutrition, australia, wa
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Topics: vitamins, diet-and-nutrition, university-of-newcastle-2308
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A Newcastle researcher develops a new extraction method that produces a 100 per cent natural dietary antioxidant.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, vitamins, research, university-of-newcastle-2308
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There's no shortage of remedies that claim to make scars less noticeable. One of the most popular is vitamin E — but will it really help improve your scar?
Topics: health, vitamins, medical-research, skin
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| UpdatedThe diet and general state of well-being of literally hundreds of millions of people around the world could be transformed by biofortification, the science of breeding in high mineral and vitamin content into staple foods commonly eaten by the world's poorest.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, vitamins, pacific, australia
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| UpdatedMany of us take vitamins and nutritional supplements in the hope that they will keep us healthy and prevent disease. But what do we really know about them?
Topics: vitamins, diet-and-nutrition, health, australia, united-states
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More than half us take supplements or complementary medicines, yet few of us understand how they are regulated for safety or quality. Here are some things you need to know before you buy and use supplements and complementary medicines.
Topics: health, vitamins, pharmaceuticals, acupuncture-and-chinese-medicine, australia
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| UpdatedTroubling questions are raised about the quality and safety of vitamins and dietary supplements after a joint investigation, with claims some products could be doing more harm than good.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, vitamins, liver-and-kidneys, health, united-states
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Troubling questions have been raised about the quality and safety of vitamins and dietary supplements, in a joint investigation by the New York Times and the PBS Frontline program. Reporter Gillian Findlay speaks to Dr Paul Offit from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, who believes few people know the risks of taking vitamins or supplements.
Topics: vitamins, united-states
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Taking steps to recover from depression and boost vitamin D levels can improve heart health, according to new research.
Topics: health, medical-research, mental-health, vitamins, united-states
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| UpdatedWhat happened to Matthew Whitby demonstrates the problems that consumers face when buying complementary medicines. Finding out if products work or are totally safe is a minefield.
Topics: vitamins, diet-and-nutrition, food-safety
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When to slip, slop, slap is about to become clearer as new guidelines aim to relieve confusion about whether Australians should spend less or more time in the sun.
Topics: vitamins, skin-cancer, health, australia
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| UpdatedExcessive consumption of the widely available supplement chromium could cause cancer, according to a new Australian study.
Topics: health, diet-and-nutrition, vitamins, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedA simple oral dose of an active form of vitamin B3 may be the secret to stopping people with significant sun damage from developing some forms of skin cancer.
Topics: skin-cancer, vitamins, the-university-of-sydney-2006, australia
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| UpdatedPlenty of us are obsessed with boosting our intake of vitamins and other nutrients through supplements and 'superfoods'. But do we really know what we're doing?
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| UpdatedTasmanian researchers believe they are one step closer to creating all the benefits of a fish-derived dietary supplement, minus the fish.
Topics: research, vitamins, diet-and-nutrition, health, tas
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There is little evidence that vitamin D can help with health conditions other than bone fractures, and people may be given doses unnecessarily, two West Australian researchers say.
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| UpdatedThere will be new restrictions on rebates for blood tests for vitamin D under the new Medicare benefits schedule, after a massive increase in the number of patients getting the tests.
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| UpdatedGenetically modified bananas grown in far north Queensland and bound for Africa are about to undergo human trials in the United States.
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Topics: vitamins, diet-and-nutrition, health, children, child-health-and-behaviour, australia
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| UpdatedHealth experts have blasted the marketing of vitamins for children, labelling it as mostly misleading and manipulative and the products potentially damaging to the children who take them.
Topics: child-health-and-behaviour, vitamins, diet-and-nutrition, advertising, advertising-and-marketing, adolescent-health, children, family-and-children, community-and-society, parenting, health, australia