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Vitamin D
Vitamin D: any of a group of vitamins found in liver and fish oils, essential for the absorption of calcium and the prevention of rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults. They include calciferol ( vitamin D2 ) and cholecalciferol ( vitamin D3 ). Vitamin D is important for good overall health and strong and healthy bones. It’s also an important factor in making sure your muscles, heart, lungs and brain work well and that your body can fight infection. Your body can make its own vitamin D from sunlight. You can also get vitamin D from supplements and a very small amount comes from a few foods you eat.
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Eating a healthy and balanced food is important in order to ...Written By: Jennifer Ellis
OCT 08, 2015
Health & Medicine
Almost everyone has had a cheeseburger at some point in their lives. Although there are a handful of people out there th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 02, 2015
Microbiology
A research team at Merck (accidentally) uncovered a new antibacterial target - a riboswitch important for riboflavin (vi
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
SEP 28, 2015
Health & Medicine
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 17% percent of women between the age of 17 and 44 take the
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 21, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the nervous system that disrupts the flow of information between the brain and t
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
SEP 13, 2015
Neuroscience
Symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS) seem to get better in the winter and worse in the summer, so a group led by Francisc
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 11, 2015
Plants & Animals
It’s long been known in the medical community that gardening can have a positive effect on patients dealing with d
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 02, 2015
Microbiology
Vitamin and mineral deficiency is a significant global health problem. Nearly 18% of the global population is defi
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
SEP 01, 2015
Videos
A baby sloth, who otherwise would have starved, has been taken under the care of London Zookeeper Kelly-Anne Kelleher. T
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 26, 2015
Neuroscience
Health researchers claim that there are now almost 47 million people living with dementia around the world, an increase
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 19, 2015
Cancer
Warnings about the dangers of smoking started in the 1960s, but lung cancer remains the second-most common cancer and th
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 13, 2015
Cannabis Sciences
You might have been told that cannabis makes you hungry. A team of researchers is finding a way to use it in a weight lo
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 10, 2015
Videos
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are for the first time eating some of their space-grown red romaine le
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 27, 2015
Videos
Photography is fun. Maybe a lot of you have a high-powered digital camera, or an impressive smartphone camera, but if yo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 15, 2015
Health & Medicine
Kale, the current leafy green of choice for many health-savvy people in the United States, could potentially be under sc
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 24, 2015
Neuroscience
Everyone knows that overdosing on fat and sugar can add extra pounds and cause a variety of physical health problems. Re
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 23, 2015
Videos
Have you ever stopped to wonder why one person might be left-handed and another right-handed? Or maybe, why one person m
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 01, 2015
Health & Medicine
It's world milk day today (June 1st, 2015) and to celebrate the common household dairy product, we will be sharing some
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 20, 2015
Cancer
Headed to the beach this summer? If yes, it is an essential for many of us to pack our favorite brand of sunscreen. Thin
...
Written By:
Kareem Heslop
APR 16, 2015
Chemistry & Physics
A potentially game-changing breakthrough in artificial photosynthesis has been achieved with the development of a system
...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 01, 2015
Cancer
A new study found that people with lower vitamin D levels prior to treatment for follicular lymphoma succumb to the dise
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 24, 2015
Health & Medicine
Move over yogurt. Turns out your microbiota need more fiber in their diet.
If you feel like you've heard just ...
If you feel like you've heard just ...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 20, 2015
Immunology
In recent years, a deficiency of vitamin D has been linked to type 2 diabetes and heart disease, two illnesses tha ...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 13, 2015
Plants & Animals
Marine biologists at the South Carolina Aquarium are treating a rare, 475-pound leatherback sea turtle that washed up Sa
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 12, 2015
Health & Medicine
Happy World Kidney Day! Now go drink some water!
Eating a healthy and balanced food is important in order to ...
Eating a healthy and balanced food is important in order to ...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis