Healthful Newsletters from Carlson Laboratories

Fall - Winter 2006

Is the Flu a Sign of Vitamin D Deficiency

Why is there a "flu season"? Is it linked to a lack of humidity, temperature, exercise in the winter, or as Dr. Hope-Simpson proposed in 1981, is it associated with a decrease in solar radiation?

Scientists are researching the effect of winter's lack of sunshine to a seasonable drop in available vitamin D in... Continue Reading

Low Vitamin D Levels May Increase Risk for Type-2 Diabetes

Researchers enrolled 126 healthy young adults from the University of California. All the subjects had normal glucose tolerance and normal blood pressure. Thirty seven percent of these young adults tested vitamin D deficient (serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level less or equal to 20 ng/ml).

Researchers measured serum... Continue Reading

Prenatal Vitamins Could Reduce Brain Cancer Risk in Children

The results of a large study indicate that mothers who took prenatal vitamins during pregnancy helped reduce the risk of their child developing neuroblastoma. Neuroblastoma is a type of brain tumor that is found primarily in children and is the most common type of cancer occurring in infants. Neuroblastoma affects nine out of every million... Continue Reading

The Lone Survivor of the SAGO Mine Explosion

The Lone survivor of the January 2, 2006 SAGO mine explosion, Randal McCloy, Jr., spent a long time in a hospital fighting organ failure and severe brain damage due to the extended time in the mine with limited oxygen supply.

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Vitamin D May Reduce Breast Cancer Risk
At the 2006 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, a study was presented suggesting that vitamin D exposure early in life may be important in lowering breast cancer risk later. The study compared 576 women aged 20 to 59 years of age that had been diagnosed with breast cancer against 1,135 healthy age-matched women. Continue Reading
Vitamin E and Heart Disease Prevention

We read with excitement a study printed in JAMA in 2005, concerning whether vitamin E supplements decrease the risks of cardiovascular disease in healthy women. Reading the study, 482 cardiovascular events occurred in the vitamin E group versus 517 events in the placebo group - and "there was a significant 24% reduction... Continue Reading

Vitamins E & C Help Lower Risk for Children with Family History of Heart Disease
Researchers who studied high-risk children with a family history of heart disease determined they could benefit from a daily dose of vitamins C and E. These two powerful antioxidants helped slow atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) in the children. The children were predisposed to having high levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol, which can... Continue Reading
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