According to Wikipedia: The Reference Daily Intake or Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) is the daily intake level of a nutrient that is considered to be sufficient to meet the requirements of 97–98% of healthy individuals in every demographic in the United States (where it was developed, but has since been used in other places). The [...]
Water Soluble Vitamins
January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Lets talk about the tricky subject of Vitamins and Minerals. I say tricky because on the Diet and Nutrition element of my degree course (back in the day) the experts could only agree on how unquantifiable their absorption is. They rarely agreed on the nutrients taken from our daily food and supplements because they’re such [...]
Bifidobacterium
November 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Well I started looking into the topic of healthy probiotics last week and spoke to the nutritional expert mentioned then … And as mentioned in that article, as added later, Alison advised me to stay away from the yoghurt drinks for the task of getting the gut flora back in balance. So I headed out [...]
Health Resveratrol – A Harvard Study
June 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This is something that arrived into the inbox from Jessica Ortner some 18-mths ago and I thought it interesting to post in order to take an opportunity to examine the sorts of information that is being studied st Harvard and probably other similar leading institutions around the world. Cheating The Eating And at some point [...]