Vitamin E significantly improves liver function for fatty liver patients: Meta-analysis
Vitamin E can significantly improve liver function in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases (NAFLD) including non-alcoholic steatohepatisis (NASH), a meta-analysis of five clinical trials. The review, published in the journal Nutrition, found the vitamin improved serum biochemical parameters and hepatic clinical guidelines on NAFLD/NASH. NAFLD is a team used to describe liver diseases involving […]
EFSA on vitamin e: ‘Pregnant and lactating women don’t need more’
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has set dietary reference values for vitamin E as alpha-tocopherol. Using dietary surveys in children and adults in nine different countries, the panel on dietetic products, nutrition and allergies said there was no apparent a-tocopherol deficiency in the EU. The trade group urged EFSA to use ‘at least’ the 2013 […]