eric: back with the doctors on this christmas sunday morning, research finds widely used dietary vitamin and mineral supplements could be associated with increased risk for death? dr. siegel? what about this? it sounds alarming. a stuttenner, everyone said e a vitamin and, the study looked at 38,000 women, published in the archives of internal medicine, 38,000 women and found, 2.5% increase in death rates, from those who took multi-vitamins and, zinc and folate and only improved mortality rate if they took calcium, vitamin e may increase your rate of prostate cancer and the take home message is don t be sure that taking extra vitamins is necessarily necessary. you may be getting it in the food you eat. i m not telling people you are
and folate, also, but the mutt vitamin, not necessarily. and, vitamin b12 if you have a deficiency, you should be taking it and i think we physicians are under estimating the amount of b12 deficiency there is. eric: and don t forget, baby aspirin. jamie: taking the children s aspirin along with your flint stone chewables, eric? eric is so honest. new attention on how we deal with bacterial infections and viruses, a difference between the two. federal officials are warning decades old antibiotics we re used to may not be cutting it anymore. dr. samadi, you ll tell us about that. there is a difference between viral and bacterial? there is and for years we ve used antibiotics to treat bacterial infections but, there is higher resistance now acase and the question is where are we going and the concept of nanotechnology, we are hearing about that and i believe covered it in the past, in detail.
out of the court. she could barely walk. afterwards she was reunited with her family and drove away to an undisclosed location, we believe it was a villa somewhere close to rome. since then making her way back home to her hometown of seattle where she can pick up the pieces of her shattered life. she was photographed in rome s airport. we don t what plane she got on, but flying back to seattle via london, that has not been confirmed to us. just agency reports saying that. clearly, she s doing everything she can to get back to the states as soon as possible. martin? matthew, despite all the excitement over her departure, it is still possible that prosecutors can appeal this and they have said they plan to do so, right? well, not just possible, but it s likely that they ll do that. in fact, they said they will do it. the prosecutors are going to go to the supreme court of italy to get the judges there to review the findings of this appeal court. what that will mean, theoret
high zinc content is vital for men to regulate testosterone and regulate sperm. bananas are high in folate which helps increase blood flow. and chili peppers they have a compound that creates energy. now you know. cnn is closely watching the unrest in libya and it s rippling across the middle east. but we re also watching another explosive drama that unfolded last week in hollywood. actor charlie sheen lashed out at his executive producer sway huge no-no. i sbo i spoke about it about jane velez-mitchell. we have to start here with charlie sheen. every day it s something else. i want to you listen to his most recent comments and then we ll talk about it. i embarrassed him in front of his children and the world by healing at a pace that his
are not pregnant to take prenatal vitamins? that is a great question, because, when you are pregnant and take them, your nails grow and hair gross and you feel terrific. and, you know, the reflexive answer to that would be, what is wrong with prenatal vitamins? it is good for a pregnant woman, will be good for me. the answer is, no. you should not take them, especially if you are a woman of r50 years of age. that is because these prenatal vitamins contain a lot of extra iron which a pregnant woman needs. this extra iron is not good for an adult female, and, for any adult, it can cause liver damage, and other problems. the other thing about these p - prenatal vitamins, they do not contain enough calcium and the third point is they contain too much folate. don t take them, the bottom line