Sentences with phrase «requirements than healthy people»

«This work tells us that at least one - third of Americans have higher vitamin E requirements than healthy people,» Bruno said.

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Information on the diets of vigorous individuals living during these times and following low - protein vegetarian diets was largely ignored.2, 3 The healthy active lives of hundreds of millions of less affluent people laboring in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America on diets with less than half the amount of protein recommended by Dr. Voit (and almost no meat), were overlooked when experts established protein requirements that still affect us today.3, 4

Vegetarians claim that the body's requirements for vitamin A can be met with carotenes from vegetable sources, but many people — particularly infants, children, diabetics and individuals with poor thyroid function — can not make this conversion.7 Furthermore, studies have shown that our bodies can not convert carotenes into vitamin A without the presence of fat in the diet.8 Dr. Price discovered that the diets of healthy isolated peoples contained at least ten times more vitamin A from animal sources than found in the American diet of his day.

Lighting Requirements Lighting plays a larger role in keeping caged birds healthy than many people may realize.