28Jan
28Jan
Food Rules You Should Follow This Winter
Why should you have certain food rules for winter? This is because with the change of season, the needs of your body also change. Winter brings with it certain challenges that your body must react to. To combat these challenges, your body must be healthy...
28Jan
How To Battle Joint Aches This Winter With These 6 Useful Tips
Winters brings a host of health ailments which can turn out to be severe if precautions are not taken at the right time. Dr Lalit Panchal, Orthopaedician at Fortis’ SL Raheja Hospital shares a few helpful tips on battling those familiar aches and pains during...
28Jan
Importance of vitamin D in human body
Vitamin D helps the body in absorbing calcium. It keep our bones and teeth strong and healthy. It helps in combating breast cancer, colon cancer and prostate cancer. It may also prevent heart disease, multiple sclerosis and diabetes. It is produced in our body when we are...
28Jan
Low Vitamin D Linked with Higher Asthma Risk
People who don't get enough vitamin D may be at increased risk for asthma, a new study suggests. In the study, researchers analyzed information collected from more than 25,000 adults ages 18 to 79, and more than 9,700 children ages 6 to 17, who took part...
28Jan
Study suggests vitamin D may influence prevention of prediabetic condition
Findings from a new study indicate that vitamin D may play a key role in preventing metabolic syndrome (MetS). MetS affects up to 34 percent of the U.S. population, increasing the risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). MetS is a...
28Jan
Sunlight improves health by stimulating cells that fight infection
A specific type of sunlight may help strengthen cells that fight infections, according to research that offers new evidence that the sun’s rays can trigger healthy responses in humans. Vitamin D produced in the skin from sunlight has many well-documented health benefits. But researchers at Georgetown...
28Jan
Vitamin D deficiency tied to sverity of systemic lupus erythematosus
Serum levels of free and bioavailable vitamin D are not signicantly associated with severity of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), as measured by the systemic lupus erythematosus disease activity index (SLEDAI), a new study reports. Instead, reduced serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) was associated with increased...
28Jan
Why Shorter Days Call for a Dose of Vitamin D
It is officially winter in our household because I have pulled out the vitamin D supplements. My daughter was too young last winter to remember that she added a vitamin to her morning routine, but my boys knew what it signaled. Instead of gobbling down...
25Feb