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High prevalence of vitamin D inadequacy and implications for health.\nHolick MF.\nMayo Clin Proc. 2006 Mar;81(3):353-73. Review.\nPMID: 16529140 \ndoi: 10.4065/​81.3.353\n

Vitamin D protects bone, preserves muscle strength, and regulates cell growth and energy metabolism. It also offers some protection against cancer and other disease, but are these effects really important for health and life expectancy? The answer seems to be a resounding yes.

A study has suggested using aspirin could cut the risk of developing a type of stomach cancer by up to a third. The British Journal of Cancer study looked at over 300,000 people.

Association between vitamin D and age-related macular degeneration in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988 through 1994. Parekh N, Chappell RJ, Millen AE, Albert DM, Mares JA. Arch Ophthalmol. 2007 May;125(5):661-9. PMID: 17502506

Measuring the thickness of a person's neck may provide as many clues to their risk of developing heart problems as measuring their waist, a study says. Researchers from the Framingham Heart Study found even those with relatively trim waistlines appeared to be at greater risk if they had larger necks.

If you wish to take up yoga for insomnia, vigorous forms like power yoga or ashtanga yoga would work best and must be practiced at least thrice a week. Make it a point however, to practice earlier in the day, and not just before you call it a day. While these forms are recommended because of their intensity, you can even take up other forms of yoga, as any discipline will help and provide you a host of other health benefits.

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For medical professionals, health care providers, industry leaders, medical students, professional and non-professional researchers, academic and medical librarians, patients, healthcare consumers, and physicians looking for CMEs and conference recaps.

Reference portal largely directed at medical professionals and health care providers, this site has articles, clinical guidelines, workups, drug databases, algorithms, CMEs, and other educational tools and resources.

A resource largely for patients and non-professional consumers of medicine and health care, created by the Mayo Clinic as an educational tool to help facilitate delivery of better, more efficient medicine to informed, participatory clients.

Candida yeast infection symptoms that lead to weight gain are seen in the form of having excessive craving for food accompanied by having problems in digesting the foods.

Living with someone who has dyshidrotic eczema is not a pretty sight. Watching them scratch themselves nearly to pieces from either pain.

You probably want to run out and buy the most expensive stretch mark cream out there and the best stretch mark cream to keep the stretch marks at bay.

It is unbelievable lower back pain is the number two worst health problem or common diseases affecting Americans and it only trails behind common flu and colds.

Lower back pain affects a good many Americans and each year the numbers of such affected souls continue to rise.

Working in the food industry, we tend to come across different food that we have never seen or eaten. Coming from the city I have heard of only a few types of ulam- ulaman. While working in the East Coast for a few years, I have found that there are lots of different things that can be used as ulam. And talking to some elderly people especially in my wife's village of Kampung Cheh, Kuala Kangsar, I have also found out that there are health benefits in eating ulam. That is why we see the people from the village are much more lively and healthier than some of us even the old there. Below are some of my findings. I will add more as I come across more ulam in my travels. What is Ulam? Ulam is a type of vegetable dish that is consumed fresh and raw. It is eaten with rice and other dishes as an appetizer to whet the appetite. As it is eaten raw and fresh, ulam-ulaman is high in vitamin and minerals. It has also anti bacterial and anti oxidant properties.

In today's fast paced world, we sometimes do not eat a proper diet all of the time. Even celebrity Chef's like Jamie Oliver is highlighting this issue. He is presently going round to schools and towns trying to teach people how to cook healthy food. On one of his shows on Discovery Channel, he was at this town that had this one parent whose three year old child has never had a nutritious home cooked meal. On a Bill Cosby's Show "Kids Say The Darndest Things", when he asked a kid who cooks his meals at home the kid answers "Pizza Hut". Sad but true. Nowadays since both parents are working to make ends meet, they often resort to fast food to fill their family's tummies. Same goes with us, to keep up with the rat race we just pop whatever we can get into our tummies. So in order to acquire sufficient vitamins to help your body overcome nutritional deficiencies to function properly, you should compensate with natural vitamin supplements. Vitamins are organic components in food that are needed in very small amounts for growth and for maintaining good health. Growing up as a skinny kid, my parents made sure I had my Vitamin Supplements. They tried everything to get some flesh on this bag of bones. Then a doctor told them not too worries as long as I'm a healthy kid. I still took multivitamins. Nowadays I take a herbal supplement called spirulina. So far I have found Spirulina to be good for me; it helps to keep my toxins in my body to a minimum. I don't feel very tired in the morning.

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Feeling breathlessness due to stuffy nose is a common health problem for some of us. While there are multiple reasons behind this issue, we often get confused about finding the right reason causing this discomfort. Although in reality this breathlessness can happen due to multiple reasons, we mostly apprehend asthma as the universal trigger. As a result we fail to get relief if we try self-medication.

Feeling breathlessness due to stuffy nose is a common health problem for some of us. While there are multiple reasons behind this issue, we often get confused about finding the right reason causing this discomfort. Although in reality this breathlessness can happen due to multiple reasons, we mostly apprehend asthma as the universal trigger. As a result we fail to get relief if we try self-medication.