Dietary Supplementation

Onion Skin Extract Lowers Blood Pressure

People suffering from hypertension may benefit from taking a dietary supplement made from onion skins. Researchers from the University of Bonn, Germany, studied the effects of taking a dietary supplement of the polyphenol quercetin, which is derived from onion skins, on blood pressure in overweight-and-obese patients with pre-hypertension and stage I hypertension. A total of

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The Importance of Nutrition in Mental Health

With pharmacological approaches both costly in developed nations and largely inaccessible in developing countries, scientists and public health experts are looking at nutritional approaches to address mental health issues.  Jerome Sarris, from the University of Melbourne (Australia), and colleagues submit that: “Evidence is steadily growing for the relation between dietary quality (and potential nutritional deficiencies)

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