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Now that cold and flu season is headed our way, I'm sure many of you are filing up on your fair share of vitamin C. You've probably heard that if you take too much, you just end up passing the excess. This doesn't happen with all vitamins, only ones that are water soluble. Vitamin C and all eight B vitamins are water soluble, which means water is required for their absorption. These nine vitamins Read more
DrSugar is in the house! And she's answering your health-related questions. Dear DrSugar, Just wondering if there is an ideal time of day, absorption-wise, to take multivitamins and supplements. Specifically, upon rising, before retiring, or somewhere in between. Thanks! — Vitamin Curious Thanks for a wonderful question. As I’ve mentioned before, multivitamins can be a very important Read more
After years of being treated with disdain, dietary fat has slowly been making its way off the nutritional black list. Now that omega-3 fatty acid is almost a household word, it is time to embrace the MUFAs — monounsaturated fatty acids. A diet rich in this type of fat has been found to reduce abdominal fat better than a diet high in carbs — even without exercise. In fact, this is the Read more
