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Vitamin A, B6, B12, C, E, Folate & Iron: Deficiency Nutrients in the US - 31% are Deficient | Plus: What About Athletes?

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Few US citizens get all the nutrients they need from their diets. You may argue that I've addressed this in a previous article. The fact that there's now updated data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)  does yet (IMHO) warrant to take another look at the prevalence of nutrient deficiencies in the US. The bad news first: The study found sign. deficiency rates for all the investigated nutrients: vitamins A, B6, B12, C, D, E, folate and iron. The good news: It's easy and - with the exception of iron and folate 100% unproblematic to supplement your diet. Looking for more ways to improve your diet? Increase your potassium (K) intake! Potassium vs. Diet-Inducded Insulin Resis. In the Lime Light: The Ill Effects of Low K Intakes Bad News: Most Americans are Sign. K Deficient Lean, Healthy ... Correlates of High Hair Potassium Eating a High Protein Diet? Better Watch K! Potassium Bicarbonate = Anabolic!? In their analysi...
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Can You Bleed Yourself Healthy and Lean? First Controlled Human Trial on the Benefits of Phlebotomy for Glucose and Lipid Metabolism and CVD Risk Could Hold the Answer

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Image 1: You better pump iron than "bleed iron" if you want to do something for your health. Oftentimes the use of supplements that promise to help with all sorts of ailments related to the metabolic syndrome will induce nothing but financial bleeding. The recently published results of an experiment that was conducted by a group of researchers from Germany, on the other hand, suggests that you and make much more progress towards a healthier glucose metabolism, blood pressure and CVD risk profile (Houschyar. 2012). Donate blood or not, is that the question? Other than most previous studies, in which scientists had simply discovered a telling association (not even a clear-cut correlation ) between glucose resistance / diabetes and the amount of stored iron (ferritin) in the bodies of their mostly obese subjects (Rajpathak. 2009), Houschyar et al. actually set out to test their hypothesis that there is a mechanistic explanation for the striking associations in a random...
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