Magnesium Supplementation May Increase Hip BMC in Girls – Bone mineral concentration is an important factor in preventing fractures.  This study clearly shows that magnesium supplementation can help increase BMC in women especially if taken early on in life. Just 300 mg’s split into two doses a day will do the trick.

Drinking Green Tea Regularly May Lower the Risk of Breast Cancer – Yet another good report on the benefits of drinking green tea.  One caveat, my suggestion is to avoid green tea when pregnant as it does seem to inhibit folic acid which is a critical nutrient in fetal development.

Diet and Lifestyle Intervention Reduces Coronary Heart Disease Risk in Obese Older Adults – From the University of the Obvious 😉 this study suggests that improving your lifestyle and diet is beneficial to ones health. Do we really still need studies like this? I would find it sad if the answer was yes.

Almonds May Help Control Blood Sugar – After reading this review, I’m going out to get some almonds as a snack food at my desk.

L-Carnitine: Safety, Tolerability, and Improvement of Fatigue in Cancer Patients – One more excellent study on the benefits of carnitine. The authors seemed to be convinced that adding L-carnitine to the regime of advance stage cancer patients is highly beneficial. They went to say about the test subjects that “…fatigue was found to significantly decrease, depression was found to decrease and sleep was found to improve.”

Circulating Levels of Vitamin D May be Inversely Associated with Risk of Multiple Sclerosis – In a well designed prospective study, researchers suggested that higher levels of circulating vitamin D was protective against developing multiple sclerosis.  Does anyone need convincing that they should be supplementing vitamin D regularly?