Washington, D.C. — Madison, WI-based Quincy Bioscience Holding Co. subsidiary, Prevagen, Inc., which is also doing business as Sugar River Supplements, has been charged by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and New York State Attorney General with making false and unsubstantiated claims that Prevagen memory-improvement supplement helps to improve memory...
Quebec, Canada — Fruit d’Or has announced that in a study conducted by Complete Phytochemical Solutions (CPS), a third-party consulting and contract research company, researchers have linked the structure of specific soluble cranberry proanthocyanidins (PAC) found in Fruit d’Or’s Cran Naturelle whole fruit cranberry powder with a mechanism of action...
WholeFoods publisher Heather Wainer discusses CurcuWin and recent research with Dr. Oliver at the OmniActive booth. [vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvY5XrbYY00"][/vc_column][/vc_row]...
Oslo, Norway and Metuchen, NJ — The kidney research and clinical journal Nephron, and the American Journal of Hypertension have individually published new papers linking vascular calcification and vascular and arterial stiffness to the vitamin K-dependent protein known as MGP (matrix GLA-protein). The Nephron paper titled “Correlations of Plasma Desphosphorylated...
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is a press release written by an industry company. WholeFoods Magazine does not endorse any specific brand or product. The opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of the publisher. When the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published new research that found cranberry juice...
Recent columns have discussed new discoveries about how vitamin E benefits health and also confirmed the safety of megadoses of vitamin E (1-6). Many people associate vitamin E with heart health because historically, it was the topic of research and books. The public first became aware of vitamin E due...
Washington, D.C.—A new study conducted by the University of South Carolina (USC) and partially funded by the American Institute of Cancer Research (AICR) presented findings at the AICR 25th Research Congress that suggest postmenopausal breast cancer survivors who consumer an anti-inflammatory diet made up of whole grain, healthy fats, spices...
Dana Point, CA—On Thursday, October 27, at the Council for Responsible Nutrition’s (CRN) annual symposium, The Conference, the trade group presented some telling results from its 2016 CRN Consumer Survey on Dietary Supplements. The results show that among consumers, confidence in the safety, quality and effectiveness of dietary supplements remains high,...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Last month, we discussed the effectiveness of the herb Pueraria mirifica against menopausal symptoms with Christiane Northrup, M.D. (1). It had been almost 10 years since we discussed the effectiveness and safety of P. mirifica and I wanted to update readers on both the effectiveness and the protection against breast...
Washington, D.C.— The American Society of Microbiology published a study in mSystems on October 4, 2016, by the APC Microbiome Institute, in which they sequenced and anaylyzed the changes of microbial populations in three different kefirs from distinct geographic locations over 24 hours of fermentation. Analysis showed that Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens...
