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Believe it or not raw food vegans, it takes scrambled (whole) eggs to turn your veggie salads into a "superfood", or rather, to have the "super effects" of all its "super vitamins" on your health . The photo shows an egg-recipe from The Organic Dish , take a look ; and don't worry if you're afraid of healthy oats , you can leave out the out cakes under the eggs ;-) I still see people throwing the good yolk of their eggs away. Shame on you!  You're not just throwing the most nutrient dense (also in terms of nutrients per energy content) away, you also sacrifice the beneficial effects of the co-ingestion of eggs with other nutrient dense foods - benefits which have only recently been recognized by the scientific community when people finally starting looking beyond individual foods and nutrients and started to investigate the actual and practically more relevant effects of food matrices. This trend that began with the negative effects of pe...

Nature knows best: Oils and other high PUFA foods come with a naturally high amount of vitamin E (see Fig 1 ). As a SuppVersity  reader you shouldn't be surprised to hear that there's a link between the amount of highly oxidizeable polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3 and omega-6) you consume and the amount of vitamin E you "need" to protect them from being oxidized by free radicals. The reason we usually speak about vitamin E in this context is that vitamin E (mostly alpha-tocopherol) is recognized as a if not the key essential lipophilic antioxidant in humans. It protects lipoproteins ( cholesterol ), PUFA, cellular and intra-cellular membranes from damage. Learn more about hormesis and potential neg. effects of antioxidants at the SuppVersity Is Vitamin E Good for the Sedentary Slob, Only? NAC Impairs Anabolic Effects of Exercise If Vitamin C is Low, Taking More is Good C+E Useless or Detrimental for Healthy People Vitamin C and Glucos...

Even if you don't get burned tanning beds pose a risk factor! I am not aware who invented the myth, but I am quite sure it's the tanning bed industry that propagates it: Tanning in what Germans call the "Asi-Toaster" (literal translation "a toaster for nackers") is safe! If we put some faith into the results of a recent study from the Department of Dermatology at the University of Minnesota this is a fatal error. "Toasting" yourselves on a tanning bed increases your risk of developing skin cancer by 287%! Or, if you like that better, it almost quadruples (4x) it! The results Rachel Isaksson Vogel and her colleagues from the University of New Mexico Cancer Center and the Brown University present in their latest paper in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) will probably be quite shocking for some of you who relied on the ability of the UV-filters in tanning beds to reduce the increase in cancer risk (Vogel. 2014). There ...

Some butter on top of the broccoli would allow for the assimilation of the absorption of the 101.6μg vitamin K 623IU vitamin A (various). There are a handful of very basic questions in nutrition science, no one appears to have an answer to. One of these questions, which is directly related to the  well-known fact that the vitamins A, D, E & K are "lipid soluble". This means that they are "solved" and thus made absorbable by fats and oils. The general assumption is thus that the vitamins A, i.e. the retinol and carotenoids, all forms of vitamin D, the tocopherols and -trienols (vitamin s E) and the two major forms of vitamin K, i.e. phylloquinone (K1) and menaquinone (K2) will only be absorbed, if you consume them with a sufficient amount of dietary fat. Now, the questions obviously are (a) is this correct and (b) how much is sufficient . Is there a rule of thumb? Well, I guess if there was one, it would be to consume 5-10g of low PUFA fats with every mea...

Figure 1: This is where you, my American friends (and most Europeans), should and would get your "E's" from - it's called "food" ( Eitenmiller. 2004 ) With the recent publication of two studies on increased all-cause mortality in older women ( Bjelacovic. 2011 ; Mursu. 2011 ) who took multivitamins (+2.4%), vitamin B6 (+4.1%), folic acid (+5.9%), iron (+3.4%), magnsium (+3.6%), zinc (+3.0%), and the "killer" copper (+18%) and increased risk of prostate cancer due to selenium and/or vitamin E supplements ( Klein. 2011 ) on a regular basis and the huge media attention these studies, " Certain Dietary Supplements Associated With Increased Risk of Death in Older Women, Study Suggests " " Vitamin E Supplement May Increase Prostate Cancer Risk, National U.S. Study Finds " have received, I got interested in taking a closer look at what I would usually have discarded as epidemiological guesswork and scare tactics , anyway. ...