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Archive for October, 2007

Benefits of Vitamin E and Vitamin K

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

Vitamin E (Tocoferol): Vitamin E is the generic name for a group of closely related and naturally occurring fat-soluble compounds, the tocopherols. Of these, alpha-tocopherol is biologically the most potent. Sources: Vitamin E is widely distributed in foods. By far the richest sources are vegetable oils, cotton seed, sunflower seed, egg yolk and butter. Foods [...]

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MENOPAUSE – HOT FLASHES

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

From puberty until your forties or fifties, thousands of follicles in your ovaries have matured into eggs or degenerated and disappeared.  The biological clock clicks in, and the ovaries begin to cease their major function.  This results in a dwindling of estrogen and progesterone production. The good news is that if you have suffered for [...]

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