Sentences with phrase «than vitamin deficiency»

Due to over supplementation, poisoning due to excess vitamins (hypervitaminosis) is more common these days than vitamin deficiency (hypovitaminosis).

Most healthy cats do not need vitamins, and giving them to your cat when not needed can lead to hypervitaminosis (poisoning due to excess vitamin intake), which is more common than vitamin deficiency.

Not exact matches

HKI has been advocating the elimination of vitamin A deficiency for more than 40 years, working with governments and other partners to reach those most in need through various interventions.

However, we would like to join the ranks of people, including the more than 6,000 supporters who have signed the petition to stop the destruction of field trials of GM crops, in calling for anti-GM activists and other concerned citizens to not take action that could delay the assessment and ongoing research of Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency and reduce the damage it can do to the precious vision and eyes of children.

More than 90 million children in Southeast Asia suffer from vitamin A deficiency, more than in any other region.

In the Philippines, vitamin A deficiency still affects approximately 1.7 million children (15.2 %) aged 6 months to 5 years while in Bangladesh, more than half of preschool and school children are affected.

They include far more than obesity or those (such as scurvy) produced by serious vitamin deficiencies.

Other than breast milk or formula, one essential supplement for many babies is vitamin D. We've learned in recent years that vitamin D deficiency can result in a multitude of problems, and rickets (a condition due to deficiency of vitamin D) is actually increasing.

Regarding vitamin D deficiency, consider the following from August 2009: «A whopping 70 percent of American kids aren't getting enough vitamin D, and such youngsters tend to have higher blood pressure and lower levels of good cholesterol than their peers, according to two new studies published this week in the journal Pediatrics.

«Vitamin A and iron deficiency affect more than one - third of the world's population.

During the last century, scientists discovered more than a dozen vitamins and determined minimum intake levels needed to prevent deficiency - related diseases such as scurvy and beriberi.

Epidemiologists at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that persons residing at higher latitudes, with lower sunlight / ultraviolet B (UVB) exposure and greater prevalence of vitamin D deficiency, are at least two times at greater risk of developing leukemia than equatorial populations.

«Present results suggest vitamin D deficiency to be the cause rather than the consequence of atherosclerosis,» said Monica Verdoia, M.D., specializing cardiologist at the Department of Cardiology, Ospedale Maggiore della Carità, Eastern Piedmont University in Novara, Italy, and investigator on the study on behalf of the Novara Atherosclerosis study group by Prof. Giuseppe De Luca.

«For example, recent studies show that dark - skinned humans make vitamin D after sun exposure as efficiently as lightly - pigmented humans, and osteoporosis — which can be a sign of vitamin D deficiency — is less common, rather than more common, in darkly - pigmented humans.»

Ezeamama found that participants with sufficient levels of vitamin D recovered more of their immune function — on average 65 CD4 + T cells more — than those with vitamin D deficiency.

Researchers at São Paulo State University's Botucatu Medical School (FMB - UNESP) detected MetS in 57.8 % of the women analyzed with vitamin D insufficiency (20 - 29 nanograms per milliliter of blood) or deficiency (less than 20 ng / ml) and in only 39.8 % of participants with sufficient vitamin D (30 ng / ml or more).

Despite of the huge number of patents involved, no more than 11 have the potential to serve as a barrier to the deployment of golden rice in countries with the highest levels of vitamin A deficiency, according to the Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI).

Dr. Romy Quijano, a medical doctor who heads the Philippine Action Network, also believes that the sensible approach to preventing vitamin A deficiency is to see that the vulnerable sectors of the population are empowered enough to access natural sources of vitamin A. «Effective nutrition education is much better than adding yet another source of vitamin A which most likely will not be equitably distributed anyway; improving livelihood; providing better health care system; addressing malnutrition, communicable diseases and other illnesses that make children more vulnerable to vitamin A deficiency.

We all suffer from memory lapses from time to time and it's often caused by nothing more than sleep deprivation, stress, or maybe a vitamin deficiency.

Researchers have noted vitamin D deficiencies are more common in people with psoriatic arthritis than the rest of the population.

Add to that the fact that vitamin D deficiency has been strongly linked to a variety of cancers, including the most dangerous types of breast and colon cancer, and sunscreen may be more trouble than it's worth.

Vitamin D deficiency is extremely widespread — with more than 100 million Americans deficient in this critical fat - soluble vitamin — and has the ability to affect up to 2,000Vitamin D deficiency is extremely widespread — with more than 100 million Americans deficient in this critical fat - soluble vitamin — and has the ability to affect up to 2,000vitamin — and has the ability to affect up to 2,000 genes.

Some studies have also shown that vitamin D and magnesium deficiency may be more common than once believed.

Also, consider this: while vitamin D deficiency affects up to 50 % of Americans today, cancer is now diagnosed in more patients under the age of 30 than ever before.

The vitamin D level was less than 50 nmol / l in 68 percent of the participants, which is the normally considered vitamin D deficiency threshold.

For example, someone who is deficient in zinc but replete in vitamin A will be much more likely to benefit from improving zinc status than improving vitamin A status; if that person could benefit from extra vitamin A, the benefit would probably only occur if the zinc deficiency were also corrected.

Then suddenly one day in less than a week i was having a severe, as i view it, vitamin d deficiency symptoms — i had chicken soup which is a source of vitamin a, and my blood calcium levels went way down, making me feel exhausted.

You can have your vitamin D levels measured to guide how much to supplement, but generally, most pregnant women need more than what's provided in a prenatal to avoid deficiency.

More than 75 % of people who eat a western diet are getting more than enough vitamin A and do not need to worry about deficiency (39).

Vitamin D deficiency is more common in vegetarians because the only other source of Vitamin D other than sunlight exposure is animal foods.

In my practice, I find that minerals are a much more common deficiency than vitamins.

While these cases represent the worst - case (though, not unlikely) scenario, the truth is that many people attribute memory lapses and drops in energy to old age when it's actually nothing more than an easily corrected vitamin deficiency.

Well, that means that the meat, eggs, and dairy from those animals has significantly less vitamin D than it used to contain back in our grandparents day... in addition to all of the other nutritional deficiencies that we talked about earlier in this article.

Children with asthma have lower vitamin A levels than children without asthma, and the degree of vitamin A deficiency they exhibit is directly proportional to the severity of their asthma.37, 38 In cell experiments, vitamin A eliminates the response of bronchial smooth muscle cells to growth factors that characterizes the asthmatic reaction39 and suppresses the activity of mast cells, which are involved in asthmatic or other reactions mediated by histamine or other inflammatory chemical messengers called leukotrienes.40 Consistent with studies in isolated cells, vitamin A deficiency causes asthmatic bronchial hyper - reactivity in live rats.41

Vitamin A deficiency has killed over 8 million children in the last 12 years, and more than a billion people lack vitamin D, which is even considered to be an epidemicVitamin A deficiency has killed over 8 million children in the last 12 years, and more than a billion people lack vitamin D, which is even considered to be an epidemicvitamin D, which is even considered to be an epidemic issue.

Beta - carotene is poorly converted into vitamin A, which is why some populations develop vitamin A deficiency despite consuming far more than they should have required.

When soy protein isolate was fed to rats, the animals required higher than normal levels of vitamins E, K, D and B12 and developed deficiency symptoms of calcium, magnesium, zinc and many other minerals.

We already knew most people were deficient, but recent research has shown that higher levels of vitamin D are necessary than were previously thought, meaning the deficiency is even more prevalent than we realized.

In one study, elderly patients with vitamin D deficiency scored lower on cognitive tests than those with adequate levels of the vitamin.

Most dietitians are concerned only about vitamin B12, and although vegans do not suffer from its deficiency more often than meat eaters, yet they are encouraged to use vitamin B12 supplementation.

In rats, experimental calcium deficiency in the presence of adequate vitamin D caused a more than four-fold elevation of calcitriol and a more than 60 percent drop in 25 (OH) D from just under 40 ng / mL to about 15 ng / mL (4)(click to enlarge):

If circadian rhythm disruption is more sensitive to deficiency than night blindness, then it may occur in the absence of other clinical signs, at serum retinol concentrations within the reference range, and at vitamin A intakes above the RDA.

-- Avoid foods containing refined sugar as it spoils your appetite, is more addictive than cocaine, weakens your immune system, and leads to vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

The Opotowski team, which found that low vitamin A levels had as great an effect lowering BMD as did high vitamin A levels, suggested that vitamin A deficiency may contribute to increased fracture risk by allowing bone matrix to grow faster than it can be mineralized.12 Indeed, although the net effect of vitamin A is to stimulate osteoclasts and slow the growth of osteoblasts, vitamin A also causes osteoblasts to secrete a variety of enzymes and other proteins that are important to bone mineralization, including osteocalcin, which is a protein that plays a direct role in attracting and binding calcium within the bone matrix.6 By slowing the growth of the matrix but increasing the rate at which it is mineralized, adequate vitamin A helps to ensure sufficient bone density.

In areas with the highest levels of hidden hunger, such as sub-Saharan Africa, South - Central / South - East Asia and India, 40 percent of preschool children have stunted growth, 30 percent have iron - deficiency anemia and more than half are vitamin - A deficient.

A major point by this author is that the range used to establish serum vitamin B12 deficiency in conventional medicine (less than 200 to 400 pg / ml) is far too low.

Fat is also needed to help absorb fat - soluble vitamins and really low fat intakes, like less than 10 % of calories, can sometimes cause nutrient deficiencies.

In 2004, a study published in the journal Neuropsychology found, among older people already at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, those with vitamin B12 deficiencies performed more poorly on memory tests than those with normal B12 levels.

Price showed Activator X to exhibit dramatic synergy with vitamins A and D. Chickens voluntarily consumed more butter and died more slowly on a deficiency diet when the butter was high in both vitamin A and Activator X than when it was high in vitamin A alone.

As the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency (which would benefit from cod liver oil) in the U. S. is much lower than the prevalence of subclinical vitamin A toxicity, while most everyone suffers from vitamin D deficiency, I no longer recommend taking cod liver oil for either adults or children.