Archive for July, 2011

How to Read a Nutrition Label

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011 at 4:52 pm  
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Remember when you were a kid and you couldn’t wait to get to the prize inside the cereal box?   Nowadays, it takes more than a toy in the box to get Mom or Dad’s attention enough to buy a product.   Today we depend on the back label to tell us about the nutritional content of the products we buy, particularly when we are shopping for our daily supplements, sports drinks or meal replacement drinks.

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Zinc Is An Important Nutrient

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 at 3:42 pm  
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Dr. Arthur Furst always told us that if a cancer patient takes GNLD’s Chelated Zinc before radiation therapy, the burn from the radiation will be less severe.   But wait, there is more…..

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Alzheimer’s and Resveratrol

Monday, July 4th, 2011 at 4:47 pm  
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It was shown recently that resveratrol possesses a “novel mechanism” for scavenging radicals.[1] Might this novel mechanism protect the brain from free radical-driven diseases like Alzheimer’s? Read on…..

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Do Antioxidant and Resveratrol Supplements Work?

Sunday, July 3rd, 2011 at 12:19 am  
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By now, many people have heard that oxidized low-density lipoprotein (LDL) is a problem in heart disease.   This is why vitamin E helps prevent heart problems – it scavenges the radicals that oxidize this fat/protein.   However, the kind of radicals that vitamin E blocks are not the only kind of free radicals people have to worry about.   Read on…..

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Cancer and Resveratrol

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011 at 10:02 am  
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Cancer is, perhaps, the most dynamic area of resveratrol research.   Resveratrol is the first natural medicinal to have solid evidence behind it showing that it blocks or stops many stages of cancer.   Resveratrol not only prevents cancer, it’s being proposed as an additional treatment. [1-3]   The following article details the recent findings:

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