Children’s Health

How Childhood Diet Influences Preferences and Health Outcomes

How Childhood Diet Influences Preferences and Health Outcomes By Fiona Riddle Early exposures to foods plays important roles not only in programming the gut microbial ecosystem, but also in shaping an individual’s preferences and dietary habits later in life. In this post, I will focus on the second aspect of this early programming. Research indicates …

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The Myth of Multivitamins and Other Supplements

Blog / By Cathy Liu

The Myth of Multivitamins and Other Supplements By Emeran Mayer, MD “In 2021, people in the US spent an estimated $50 billion on dietary supplements and the dietary supplement industry spent about $900 million on marketing” Billions of dollars are being spent by consumers each year on products marketed as health promoting without solid evidence …

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