Archive for March 2012
Coffee looks like it Protects from Liver Fibrosis
"Moderate consumption of coffee may be a useful, benign adjunct(for patients with fatty liver disease) - but hold the cream and sugar!" Read the rest of this entry »
Vitamin D tied to fewer stress fractures in girls
"While there was no link between how much calcium girls and young women got in their diets and their chance of getting injured, those with the greatest daily vitamin D intake were half as likely to have a stress fracture as those who got the least."
"We know that calcium is important for bone health, so we were surprised to find that vitamin D was only found to be protective," Sonneville told Reuters Health. Still, she added, "Our findings in no way suggest that calcium is not important." Read the rest of this entry »