About 50 million children in the Un...

About 50 million children in the United States endure from high blood levels of LDL or "bad" cholesterol--and doctors are finding the condition more and more.

Now, a reflection published in the August 11 2003 edition of the medical journal Circulation hints a nutritional solution.

Children with elevated LDL on a levels were given 500 milligrams (mg) a day of vitamin C and 400 international units (IU) a day of vitamin E for 6 weeks. They were also placed onward the National Cholesterol Education Program stair II diet--a special low-fat diet containing simply 7 percent saturated fat--for 6 months

After antioxidant supplementation, the kids exhibited a get back of normal endothelial cell function (improper function is an early sign of atherosclerosis)--suggesting a turning away from the road to heart disease.

$16 BILLION Reduction in US health care require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergones over 5 years from daily multivitamin intake for clan over 65. SOURCE: LEWIN GROUP

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