Minerals
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Vitamin and mineral supplements - Better Health Channel
Taking vitamin supplements is no substitute for a healthy diet.
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Kids' Health - Topics - Vitamins and minerals
Vitamins are substances that your body needs so that it can work properly.There are two types of vitamins.
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Children and vitamins
There are lots of vitamin and mineral supplements available for children, but are they necessary? Very few kids actually need to take supplements and get everything they need from a balanced diet.
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Complementary treatments and therapies | Arthritis Australia
What are complementary therapies? 'Complementary therapies' are any treatments or therapies that are not part of the conventional treatment (such as medicines or surgery) of a disease. Examples of complementary therapies include acupuncture, massage, aromatherapy, vitamin and mineral supplements and herbal medicines.
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Calcium and Phosphate Balance
Phosphate is a mineral which combines with calcium to form the hard structure of your bones and teeth. It comes from the food that you eat.
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Iron | Nutrition Australia
Iron is a mineral that is found in a range of foods. It helps to transport oxygen around the body, making it essential for life! It is also important for producing energy, optimal immune function, and storing oxygen in our muscles (this is what gives muscles their red colour!)
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Vitamins - common misconceptions
There are many misconceptions about vitamins and the health benefits they offer. Vitamins play an important role in keeping the body healthy. However, taking large doses of certain vitamins can actually be harmful. For most people, it is best to get the vitamins our bodies need from eating a variety of healthy, unprocessed foods rather than by taking supplements.
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Nourishing Nutrients Dietitians Association of Australia
Nourishing Nutrients Our bodies need nutrients but what are they? Theyre substances that give us energy, help us grow and repair, protect our body, and make our body run efficiently
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Bone mineral density tests - myDr.com.au
Bone mineral density testing assesses the mineral content of your bones. Low bone mineral density - osteopenia or osteoporosis - makes bones weak.
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Vitamin and mineral (micronutrient) supplements
Here is what you need to know about the benefits for fertility and pregnancy health of folic acid, iodine, vitamin D, zinc, and selenium supplements.
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Antioxidant vitamins and mineral supplements to prevent the development of age-related macular degeneration | Cochrane
Antioxidant vitamins and mineral supplements to prevent the development of age-related macular degeneration
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Antioxidant vitamins and mineral supplements to slow down the progression of age-related macular degeneration | Cochrane
Antioxidant vitamins and mineral supplements to slow down the progression of age-related macular degeneration
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Bone mineral density: testing for osteoporosis | Issue 2 | Volume 39 | Australian Prescriber
Diagnosing osteoporosis requires a careful search for fragility fractures and measuring bone mineral density.
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Drug-based and non-drug-based interventions to improve the bone mineral density in patients living with HIV | Cochrane
Drug-based and non-drug-based interventions to improve the bone mineral density in patients living with HIV
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Are changes to diet effective to manage mineral and bone abnormalities in people with chronic kidney disease? | Cochrane
Are changes to diet effective to manage mineral and bone abnormalities in people with chronic kidney disease?
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Use of a powder mix of vitamins and minerals to fortify complementary foods immediately before consumption and improve health and nutrition in children under two years of age | Cochrane
Use of a powder mix of vitamins and minerals to fortify complementary foods immediately before consumption and improve health and nutrition in children under two years of age
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Balneotherapy (or spa therapy) for rheumatoid arthritis | Cochrane
We reviewed the evidence on the benefits and harms of balneotherapy (natural mineral waters, gases and mudpacks or spa therapy) in people with rheumatoid arthritis. Balneotherapy is defined as bathing in natural mineral or thermal waters (e.g. mineral baths, sulphur baths, Dead Sea baths), using mudpacks or doing both. Upon searching for all relevant studies up to December 2014, we found nine studies with 579 people. The quality of the evidence is very low mainly because of the low number of participants in the studies and concerns about study designs.
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Dietary supplements for pain during menstruation | Cochrane
Cochrane authors reviewed the evidence of the effect of dietary supplements (e.g. vitamins, minerals, herbs) on period pain (dysmenorrhoea).
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Balneotherapy or spa-therapy for Osteoarthritis | Cochrane
This summary of a Cochrane review presents what we know from research about the effect of Balneotherapy (mineral baths) for Osteoarthritis (OA). The review shows that in people with OA:
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Selenium supplementation for asthma | Cochrane
Selenium is a trace mineral, and it is thought that deficiency of selenium may play some role in the development of asthma. Some studies suggest that selenium supplementation for people with chronic asthma may help to improve symptoms. This review found some evidence from only one small trial that selenium supplementation might help reduce symptoms of chronic asthma symptoms, but more research is needed to be certain.
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