Juice safety for kids balance and hydration
The article warns that fruit juice lacks protein and calcium and should not replace milk or meals. It suggests limiting juice to one meal and one or two snacks daily, offering water or tomato juice as alternatives, and using chocolate or breakfast-mixed milk if needed to keep calcium intake.
Nutritious Juice Choices For Vitamin C And A
The article compares 100 percent fruit juices and their vitamin content. It highlights apricot grapefruit and orange juices as strongest for vitamins C and A while noting some juices add vitamin C and pure apple juice mainly provides natural sugars. It uses RDAs for children and adults to frame the differences.
Meta analyses risk distorting medical truths
Boston report questions the reliability of meta analysis that combines small studies into a single large one. Researchers from Montreal compared 12 large trials with 19 meta analyses and found meta analyses often differed from later definitive studies, potentially misguiding treatment decisions.
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New England Journal of Medicine
Jacques LeLorier
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John C. Bailar III
University of Chicago
Extra calcium doubt grows for breastfeeding women
A study from Children’s Hospital Medical Center finds 383 new mothers on 1000 mg extra calcium daily did not gain bone protection during lactation. Spine bone loss remained about 3 to 5 percent. total body loss near 1 to 2 percent, regardless of supplements. The New England Journal of Medicine report questions long held dietary advice.
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Boston
Heidi J. Kalkwarf
Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati
New England Journal of Medicine
Ann Prentice
Medical Research Council
England
Prentice
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