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Dietary Protein Basics
April 4th, 2011 
admin The popularity for high protein intake has been incited by the several diets and books written that promote the advantages of higher dietary protein and essential fats, lower refined carbohydrates and very low saturated fats. Protein has also been touted as a mood stabilizer plus control for diabetes, but critics point out that restricted intake [...]
Vitamins – the Basics
January 6th, 2011 admin Vitamins are micro-nutrients. They were discovered by Eijkman (1897) in Indonesia, Java, while studying a disease called beriberi common among natives whose main diet was rice. He noticed that fowl fed on polished rice, developed beri beri, but not when fed on crudely milled rice. In 1911 Funk obtained an alcoholic extract of the outer [...]
