Showing posts with label Vitamin D. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vitamin D. Show all posts
Friday, September 20, 2024

Vitamin D: Essential for Bone Health and Beyond

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Vitamin D is a crucial nutrient for maintaining overall health, particularly for bone health. It plays a vital role in ensuring the body fun...
Thursday, September 12, 2024

Vitamin D and Heart Health: Benefits, Risks, and Overall Impact

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Vitamin D, often referred to as the “sunshine vitamin,” is vital for maintaining overall health, impacting everything from bone strength to ...
Saturday, August 24, 2024

Discovery and Characterization of Vitamin D: A Milestone in Nutritional Science

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The early 20th century marked a pivotal period in the understanding of vitamins, particularly the discovery and characterization of vitamin ...
Thursday, August 8, 2024

Evolution of Vitamin D: From Ancient Awareness to Modern Health

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Human awareness of vitamin D dates back to early antiquity, with ancient civilizations recognizing the importance of sunlight and certain fo...
Friday, July 26, 2024

The Essential Role of Vitamin D in Human Health

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Vitamin D stands out among fat-soluble vitamins because the body can synthesize it using sunlight from a precursor derived from cholesterol....
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Balancing Sun Protection and Vitamin D: Ensuring Optimal Health

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Our skin evolved to synthesize vitamin D when exposed to the sun's ultraviolet (UV) rays. In equatorial regions, where most of the world...
Thursday, May 9, 2024

The Stealth Epidemic: Unveiling Diseases Associated with Vitamin D Deficiency

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In the 21st century, the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency has reached alarming proportions, manifesting as a silent epidemic with widespre...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

Hypervitaminosis D

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Vitamin D toxicity, also called hypervitaminosis D, is a rare but potentially serious condition that occurs when excessive amounts of vitami...
Friday, January 28, 2022

Foods that are high in vitamin D

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Many foods contain added vitamins and minerals that might not be in a person’s diet or that have been destroyed or lost in processing. Commo...
Thursday, December 3, 2020

Research of Vitamin D by Harry Goldblatt

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Vitamin D became classified as a vitamin through a historical accident. It was in 1919/20 that Sir Edward Mellanby, working with dogs raise...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Mushroom Is A Natural Source Of Vitamin D

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Vitamin D is in category of fat-soluble vitamin therefore human body can store extra amounts of vitamin D. It is necessary to get enough vit...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

Food sources of vitamin D

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Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin. This means that human body can store extra amounts of vitamin D. Vitamin D works with calcium and phosph...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Vitamin D deficiency can cause heart disease

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Vitamin D, a fat-soluble prohormone, has wide-ranging roles in the regulation of many physiological processes through their interactions wit...
Sunday, November 17, 2019

Elmer McCollum - Discovering Vitamin A, Vitamin B and Vitamin D

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Elmer Verner McCollum (March 3, 1879 – November 15, 1967) was born and raised in Kansas and attended the University of Kansas. His studies w...
Friday, March 15, 2019

Adding vitamin D in milk

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Milk normally contains vitamin D, but the amount varies with cow’s diet, and with her exposure to sunlight. Milk has a relatively low cont...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

The first scientific description of a vitamin D-deficiency by Dr. Daniel Whistler

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The term ‘rickets’ first appeared in 1634 when listed as a cause of death in London’s Annual Bill of Mortality. The first scientific descr...
Thursday, October 4, 2018

Edward Mellanby and study of rickets

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Rickets in young children, known for centuries as the English disease, was fully described in 1650 by Francis Glisson, Regius Professor of P...
Friday, August 17, 2018

7-Dehydrocholesterol

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7-Dehydrocholesterol is a biosynthetic precursor to previtamin D 3 in human skin and to cholesterol in tissues. Although the level of 7-dehy...
Saturday, June 9, 2018

Vitamin D for normal bone

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Vitamin D comes from two sources in humans; it could either be synthesized in form of vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) under the influence of so...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Disease of growing bone: Rickets

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Rickets is a disease that affects bone structure, resulting in soft and weakened bones and is particularly damaging to the weight-bearin...