Archive for July, 2010
Vitamin D is no doubt one of the most important items for our body but are we getting the desired amount of vitamin D? Some of the experts of Vitamin D have answered this question and it is ‘No’ for majority of the population.
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In the July 2010 issue of Endocrine Today, Anthony Norman, a distinguished professor emeritus of biochemistry and biomedical sciences and an international expert on vitamin D notified that more than half of people in North America and Western Europe gets insufficient amount of Vitamin D.
The Vitamin is actually present in very few foods like cod liver oil, fish and eggs, in the other foods like orange juice, milk, yogurts’ and other breakfast items it is present in the fortified form.
According to Norman “There is a wide consensus among scientists that the relative daily intake of vitamin D should be increased to 2,000 to 4,000 IU for most adults” and further “A 2000 IU daily intake can be achieved by a combination of sunshine, food, supplements, and possibly even limited tanning exposure”.
Ice tea is no doubt one of the most favorite drinks of a huge majority of people in the summer but recently some really drastic results of ice tea usage have been found by the urologists.
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Actually the ice tea contains high concentration of Oxalate and this is the main element that leads to the formation of Kidney stones.
Marc Mulac a 48 years old person was a great fan of ice tea and he takes at least six glasses of it in a day, according to him “Iced tea was very refreshing, cheap to buy and easy to make.” Unfortunately this habit of Ice tea consumption leads him to the concentration of painful kidney stones that finally lead him to the surgery in Loyola University Hospital in Maywood, Ill.
Dr. John Milner, assistant professor, Department of Urology, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Ill while talking about the Ice tea and its affects said that “For people who have a tendency to form kidney stones, it’s definitely one of the worst things you can drink.”
Your hair is one of the most important body parts that contribute to your good looks and beauty. If your hair is not dull, rough, damaged and dry, you can never look attractive though you have killing features.
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For your nice overall looks, it is important that you have healthy and shiny hair. Dandruff is one of the worst enemies of hair-health. It isn’t only irritating and itchy, but it adds to your hair fall, too. Therefore, it is important to get rid of dandruff in the first place if you want to have healthy looking shiny hair.
There can be many reasons for dandruff in your scalp. Some major reasons include hereditary factor, too much oily skin, too much dry skin and fungus.
Though they say that there isn’t any direct relation between dandruff and hair loss, it does affect your hair loss. When you scratch your scalp due to itching (by dandruff), roots of the hair are weakened.
This results in hair fall (or, increased hair fall.) Now, let us have a look at some remedies that can control your hair loss by treating dandruff.
Obesity is just a hell! It not only leaves a bad physical appearance of you but takes all the happiness of life from your, recently a research has shown that men who face their adult life with an Obese body faces a lifelong doubling of risk of death in the premature age.
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A study was presented at International Congress on Obesity in Stockholm and in that the researchers tracked 5,000 military conscripts starting at the age of 20 until up to the age of 80 and at the end of study it was found out that obese people were twice as likely to die as compared to those who were not obese at their age of adolescent.
While talking about the results of this study the study’s leader, Esther Zimmermann, a researcher at the Institute of Preventive Medicine said that “As the obesity epidemic is still progressing rapidly, especially among children and adolescents, it is important to find out if obesity in early adulthood has lifelong mortality effects”.
Sleep Apnea is one of the most common problem of most people worldwide and in this problem people snores and faces breathing disturbances while sleeping and a new study has found that these problems can be linked to higher risks of heart failure and attacks especially in the middle aged and old men.
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This thing is very amazing that this problem has been seen in the older males only while the women are completely safe of this. It has been seen that people suffering from sleep apnea often faces a pause in their breathing and wake up at once, but then they go back to sleep without taking too much notice of this problem. People though don’t take notice of the sudden awakening but the heart does so and gets affected badly.
