560 - Fiber 2.0—Fiber's New Science of Health-Boosting Benefits

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Vitamin K2: Is a supplement a good idea?

876. There's no vitamin F or G. After E, we jump straight to K, and that quirk is a hint that this nutrient is more complicated than it looks. Vitamin K isn't one thing. It's a whole family of compounds -- K1, K2, MK-4, MK-7 -- that come from different sources and do completely d ...  Show more

Touching GRAS: What 'generally recognized as safe' really means

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