The Reasons for Including Brassica Vegetables in our Diet

The plant family of Brassicaceae consists of a large variety of vegetables. Among the most valuable vegetables for improving health that belong to the Brassicaceae or Cruciferae family can be mentioned...

Maca: The Peruvian Gingsen

Maca (Lepidium meyenii Walpers) is a native plant in the Andes region and belongs to the Brassicaceae family...

The Risks of Multi-Vitamin Intake

Vitamins are a group of organic nutrients, required in small quantities for a variety of biochemical functions that, generally, cannot be synthesized by the body and must therefore be supplied in the diet[2]. Most of the vitamins are absolutely essential in the human diet...

The Vitamin A

Vitamin A is a fat soluble vitamin. Under normal conditions, over 90% of vitamin A is stored in the liver, mostly as retinyl palmitate This is why fish and animal livers (and their oils, like cod liver oil) are such potent sources of vitamin A...

Vitamin D Deficiency is a Serious Problem in the Wolrd

Vitamin D deficiency is now recognized as a pandemic with more than half of the world’s population currently at risk. It is estimated that one billion people worldwide have either vitamin D deficiency of insufficiency. The major cause of vitamin D deficiency...

Antiseptiec Properties of Cod Liver Oil