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Choline Deficiency, Its Consequences and How You Fix It | Part 2 of the "Common Nutrient Deficiencies, Their Health Consequences and How You Can Fix Them" Series

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Don't you tell me there was no fancy cooking with the choline source #1, i.e. egg yolk! What about egg yolk on ricotta cauliflower ravioli filling, for example, | get the recipe @ tastespotting.com If you've read the last installment of this series, you can hardly be surprised that today, we are about to talk or rather I am about to write about choline. Choline is, as Wikipedia informs us, a water-soluble essential nutrient. Why choline is not officially called a "vitamin" is beyond me. "Experts" will still group it within the B-complex vitamins, anyway. In my analyses in the series on nutrients other than carbohydrates that influence glucose control, you've read that the former, the "other", "real" B-vitamins are - in my humble opinion - totally overrated. Choline, which can come in various forms of quaternary ammonium salts all of which contain the characteristic N,N,N-trimethylethanolammonium cation, on the other hand, it pr...
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Common Nutrient Deficiencies, Their Health Consequences and How You Can Fix Them - Part 1: Potassium Deficiency, Bone & Protein Loss, Stroke, Heart Disease & High Mortality

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The fact that many Americans don't get enough of the "non-salt" electrolytes (calcium, magnesium, potassium) is also due to the fact that mineral water is still an exotic beverage in the US. A recent paper by scientists from the Council for Responsible Nutrition in Washington (Wallace. 2014) says: Large portions of the population had total usual intakes below the estimated average requirement for vitamin A (35%), vitamin C (31%), vitamin D (74%), vitamin E (67%), choline (92%) and vitamin K (67%), as well as potassium (100%), calcium (39%) and, of course, magnesium (46%) - and that despite the fact that more than 50% of the US citizens consume a multivitamin and -mineral supplement of which probably 90% believe that it would balance their dietary shortcomings. Reason enough to take another look at the possible health consequences and ways to fix these deficiencies by increasing the intake of certain foods or supplements. There are more articles to come in this ...
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