Risk landing on life, body, injury, illness, disability and chronic conditions.
File photo: spices, seeds and nuts at a market in Darjeeling, India. Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. In the news · July 2026 A meta-analysis pooled 78 randomized trials with 5,226 participants. Magnesium supplements produced small changes, such as systolic blood pressure down 2.5 mmHg and fasting glucose down 3.6 mg/dL,…
File photo: crystals of iron(II) sulfate heptahydrate, a compound used in iron supplements. Photo: Benjah-bmm27, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. In the news · July 2026 A prospective, non-randomised study at a Mexican hospital followed 171 women with iron deficiency anaemia taking iron daily or every other day. Both schedules improved haemoglobin over three months,…
File photo: a raised bascule bridge on 12th Street in Chicago, in an early-1900s photograph. Photo: Detroit Publishing Company, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. In the news · September 2026 In early September 2026 the DuSable Lake Shore Drive bridge in Chicago stuck in the raised position for over four hours because heat caused thermal…
Half of football injuries are to the lower limb, the risk is concentrated in games and on one play type, and moving a line five yards cut concussions on that play by four-fifths.
Ankles first and knees second, plus two of the best-tested precautions in team sport — a randomised trial of lace-up braces and a warm-up whose benefit depends almost entirely on actually doing it.
Baseball has one of the lowest injury rates in college sport, and one specific arm problem that the rate hides entirely. What the evidence says about volume, fatigue and the two precautions that have been tested.
Calcium per measured tablespoon, why absorption falls as the dose rises, and why 59 trials found a one per cent bone density gain that appears in year one and then stops.
Riboflavin per measured tablespoon, why deficiency almost never occurs alone, and what four hundred milligrams a day did in the migraine trials.
Thiamin per measured tablespoon, the milling step that turned beriberi into an epidemic, and why the Food and Nutrition Board set no upper limit at all.
There is no vitamin D1. There are two forms, the label treats them as interchangeable, and the randomised comparisons put D3 ahead by about 15 nmol/L — with most of the gap in a dosing schedule almost nobody uses.
