Multivits combat birth defects for diabetic mothers
Taking multivitamins around the time of conception may reduce the risk of birth defects in children born to diabetic mothers, according to a study in the journal Pediatrics.
Archives for May 6, 2003
Varying strengths for herbal antioxidants
Norwegian and Japanese scientists have confirmed several culinary and medicinal herbs as important sources of dietary antioxidants. But they say there is more than a 1000-fold difference among antioxidant concentrations.
Nutriblend divested to LycoRed
German pharmaceutical and chemicals company Merck has announced the sale of its Nutriblend nutritional supplements business to Israeli-American joint venture LycoRed Natural Products Industries, producer of the natural tomato lycopene complex Lycomato.
Adsat 'fat buster' ad busted
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in the UK has upheld a complaint against Adsat challenging the efficacy of its Thermoplast V37 slimming product.
Keeping tabs on cyclamate levels
The Food Standards Agency is advising parents to give young children no more than three beakers (about 180ml each) a day of dilutable soft drinks, or squashes, containing the sweetener cyclamate.