Popular information about diet and health are not usually facts in the strict scientific sense, rather are arguments in favor of some conclusion, usually to sell a product. If you do not already have the personal experience needed to determine if an argument is accurate or faulty, look to see if it contains one or more ![[WWW]](http://wikispot.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small}
Logical Fallacies. If so, proceed carefully: If the author cares so little about your intellectual health, he probably does not care at all about your physical health.
Common logical fallicies used in diet and nutritional arguments are
Product Labels Cracking the produce codes Deceptive Food Labels? With today's health minded shopper, food manufacturers are well aware that a leading concern of consumers is health and eating healthy foods. Since marketing plays an enormous role in product sales, marketing tactics paint a blurry picture designed to entice the buyer, not educate!
Vitamin C The Vitamin C Foundation
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Vitamin E Acute Mountain Sickness A double-blind trial of 18 mountaineers climbing to the Mt. Everest base camp found that use of an antioxidant vitamin supplement (providing 1,000 mg of vitamin C, 400 IU of vitamin E, and 600 mg of lipoic acid daily) significantly improved symptoms of altitude sickness as compared to placebo. Treatment was begun 3 weeks prior to ascent and continued during the 10 days of climbing. However, this was a very small study, and its results cannot be taken as reliable. Another small study using similar antioxidants in a similar manner found that use of antioxidants might offer benefits in the first couple of days of high altitude ascent, but that these benefits decline with acclimatisation. Vitamin E Does To Your Body Influence of vitamin E on physical performance The results of this study show that vitamin E has a beneficial effect on physical performance and on cell protection, at least at high altitude.
Heat shock Prepair HSPs are the body's natural protective and recovery response to physical stresses known to damage protein molecules in muscle and tissue cells. Proteins are the body's building blocks for muscles and tissues and play an important role in practically every chemical reaction in the body. Extreme variations in temperature, altitude, pressure and oxygen levels, as well as exposure to UV rays typically encountered in intense sporting activities, or even sunbathing, can disrupt or damage protein molecules. HSPs prepare your body to handle environmental challenges better by enhancing the tolerance to stress in cells, and protecting and repairing cellular protein molecules damaged by physical stress.
Phosphatidylserine (PS) The effects of phosphatidylserine on endocrine response to moderate intensity exercise
Vitamin D3 The Vitamin D Council Support for the growing realization that humans need a minimum of 3,000 IU of vitamin D3 a day Throw away the sunscreen! Even more significant may be the observation that patients with malignant melanoma exhibit low levels of vitamin D3 in their blood, and that others have a problem with the receptor for vitamin D.
Calcium What can high-calcium foods do for you? Chelated calcium is calcium bound to an organic acid, such as citrate, malate, lactate, or gluconate; or to an amino acid, such as aspartate. Research indicates that calcium chelates, especially calcium citrate, are more bioavailable than calcium carbonate.
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