(Palm Oil) An E-xcellent local oil

News source : The Star Online BANGI: They are a source of energy and nutrients for our bodies, as well as antioxidants that protect our cells against the effects of free radicals and help to reduce inflammation. These are the good oils that should form a small but...

Brain Health, Arginine Metabolism & Tocotrienols

A study recently published in Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity was designed to look at the growing body of evidence suggesting that age-related altered arginine metabolism affects brain metabolic activity, particularly in regions involved in learning, memory,...

Vitamin E : It’s (a) complex

High doses of alpha tocopherol can be harmful, but the full vitamin E complex is important to good health. In recent years “vitamin E” has been linked to a variety of health conditions, and purported to have negative or positive effects causing much confusion among...

The ABCD of Vitamin E

Admin: Vitamin E consists of 8 distinct members – 4 members (or isoforms) of tocotrienol and 4 members of tocopherols. While not all vegetable oils contain tocotrienols, all the 4 isoforms of tocotrienol can be found in Malaysian red palm oil – which is a...