A patient was recently advised by a health care provider to take Vitamin D supplements between meals in order to boost absorption of the Vitamin D. She was surprised at this advice, because she had always heard that vitamins should be taken with meals. She approached me with this question: "Should I take Vitamin D with a meal or without?" Here's the short answer: On limited evidence, it appears that Vitamin D supplements are best absorbed if taken with the largest meal of the day.
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Car accidents cause damage to your car, which is often the first thing we think about after an accident. After all, we can see the twisted metal, broken headlights, and scratched paint job. Car accidents can cause a devastating amount of damage to your body, which is a lot harder to see. An insurance company can tell you exactly how much damage occurred to your vehicle, but it's difficult to say exactly how much damage occurred to you. Some people who have whiplash, for example, can undergo symptoms for months and months, even if they are treated immediately after the accident. Many of the people who have whiplash also have dizziness. Two Swiss researchers investigated the dizziness in some chiropractic patients who have whiplash. They published an article in the journal Chiropractic & Manual Therapies recently in which they asked two important questions: 1) does whiplash with dizziness take longer to improve; and 2) do men or women usually have dizziness with whiplash? And they came up with these surprising answers: From the American Chiropractic Association:
Arlington, VA.—A recent study in the medical journal Spine found a strong association between chiropractic care and the avoidance of lumbar spine surgery. The American Chiropractic Association is encouraged by this and other recent research supporting chiropractic’s conservative, less costly approach to low-back pain. Key findings of the Spine study show that: |
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