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1 The Best Supplements For Your Skin
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3 DrSugar Answers: Are Expensive Vitamins Better?
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4 Jackie Warner on Fat Burning and Weight Loss Supplements
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5 Carbohydrate Mouth Rinse: Cool or Not?
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7 Do You Take a Daily Multivitamin?
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8 Know Your A, B, C's: Vitamin D
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9 Fittingly Mad: Diet Pill Commercials
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10 Vitamins: Natural vs. Synthetic
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11 Antioxidants: Food IS Better Than Supplements
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12 Do you take nutritional supplements daily?
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13 More Than Half of Americans Take Supplements — Do You?
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14 Label Able: USP Verified Supplement Mark
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15 Drugs Manufactured in Filth
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16 Mighty Magnesium: 4 Ways to Load Up on This Essential Mineral
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17 Healthy Eating Tip: Spend More on Veggies Than Supplements
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18 Do You Take Vitamin Supplements?
Do you give your body the right amount of nutrients it needs? A new report from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention says that, thankfully, most Americans get enough essential vitamins, like vitamins A and D, iron, and folate. That's good news for us, since it shows that we're helping our bodies fight disease and stay strong and healthy. But since the report studied blood and urine Read more
Magnesium is an essential mineral our body needs and is found in our bones, body tissues, and organs. A well-balanced diet will usually provide you with adequate magnesium levels, but if you are prone to headaches, forgetfulness, sore or cramping muscles, stress, or chronic fatigue, a deficiency in magnesium might be what's slowing you down. For ways to get a daily dose of magnesium, read on. Read more
We are excited to share one of our fave stories from Prevention here on FitSugar! Skin Health By the Editors of Prevention Your birthday suit is pretty good at taking care of itself, but this process changes over time. Through natural exfoliation, your skin sheds dead cells as younger ones, generated deep in the epidermis (skin's top layer), migrate upward to replace them. In young, healthy Read more
I've never been a fan of supplements, even during my Flintstones vitamin days. Between having to remember to take them and the odd tastes of some of them (yes you, fish oil), I prefer to get my nutrients from the farmers market. But according to a new report from the CDC, I'm in the minority. More than half of adults in the US take a supplement of some sort, including multivitamins (almost 40 Read more
Remember a couple years back, when it seemed like every beauty company was coming out with some kind of nutraceutical beverage designed to make your skin look great while you hydrated? Well, although the craze for them has died down, there are still plenty of new ones coming out. Recently, I was sent ReBloom ($28), a "beauty sleep drink" that promises to deliver better, beautifying sleep without Read more
When I asked my doctor about ways to prevent migraines, she recommended I take a magnesium (oxide) supplement. I headed to my closest drugstore and picked up a bottle of Nature's Bounty Magnesium supplement (500 mg), and I've been taking one pill every morning for the last few weeks. Even though it's been less than a month, since taking the mineral supplement I've been headache and migraine Read more
Eating gels, energy bars, and goo is so passé. As reported by the New York Times, athletes can get the same burst of energy from just gargling a carb solution. No eating, no wrappers, no muscle cramps — just gargle and spit. A study found that just having the carbs enter your mouth tricks the body into thinking energy is on the way, which provides the extra energy your body needs to perform. Read more
DrSugar is in the house! And she's answering your health-related questions, like this one submitted in our Ask Anything group. Q: Does it matter which brand of vitamins I take? Are the more expensive ones better for you? A: This is a great question to ask because I'm sure many of FitSugar's readers, including me, have become perplexed and overwhelmed when at the health food store or vitamin store Read more
I interviewed trainer Jackie Warner recently, and before we spoke I asked you all to submit questions for her. Sugar user LD fit was curious to know Jackie's take on weight loss and fat burning supplements like CLA. Here's what Jackie had to say on the matter: "I love certain supplements. There are some very safe supplements that don’t cause any harm to the body and you can take forever and Read more
If you down your vitamins with a little bit of tap water, chances are high you store them in your bathroom or kitchen. Unfortunately, a new study indicates that the watery elements of those two rooms make them the worst places to keep these pills. High humidity and high temperatures, often found in both the kitchen and bathroom, can degrade the potency and decrease the shelf life of certain Read more
