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Colour Your World with Flavonoids
What are flavonoids? Albert Szent-Györgyi, a Hungarian researcher who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his research on vitamin C and cofactors, proposed the term “vitamin P” for these remarkable, bioactive, protective cofactors and later named them.

Grape Expectations
It is sobering news for women that they now not only suffer equal rates of heart disease as men, but are more likely to die from their heart attacks.

Your Detox-Product Shopping List
From the car fumes we breathe to the pesticide residues on our foods, toxic contaminants are, sadly, a daily reality. Your local health food store is your best source of the wide range of natural foods, herbs, and supplements needed to support natural detoxification.

Is Your Skin Thirsty?
Your skin-your body’s largest organ-acts as a barrier to the outside world, protecting your body’s tissues and other organs from damage and infection. It also prevents loss of water and other body fluids and helps keep body temperature in control.

Bioflavonoids

Help for the Holiday Season
Holidays are a time to celebrate with family and friends, and to yield to the temptation to overindulge in food and drink. Study results from the New England Journal of Medicine (March 2000) has scientifically confirmed that, on average, we gain a pound of weight during the festive season.

Cholesterol Control
The Framingham Heart Study, 50 years of data collected from residents in Framingham, Connecticut, established that high blood cholesterol is a major risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD). Results from many other studies have shown that lowering total and LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels significantly reduces CHD.

Bravo for Bioflavonoids!
“Bioflavonoids” is a much-used buzzword in the world of supplements, and rightfully so. These natural pigments give plants their bright colours and are truly bursting with health benefits.

Back to Basics
Building your strongest nutritional foundation begins with two basic steps: eating a balanced nutritious diet and taking a high-quality daily multiple vitamin and mineral supplement. This back-to-basics strategy has proven effective for young and old alike.