Hello everyone. Today’s article is a guest post from Staysure. ----- Everyone tends to be feeling a bit run down near to the beginning of the year, but if you've been particularly prone to colds and flu this winter, you might want to look into upping your Vitamin D intake. The vitamin has countless health benefits, and yet so many people do not make an effort to get more of it by way of their diet. Not only does it keep bones and teeth healthy, a lack of the vitamin could also trigger serious conditions such as rickets and there is also plenty of evidence linking it to fertility, … [Read more...]
The Importance Of Getting Enough Vitamin D This Christmas
Vitamins are important nutrients that help your body function properly. They all have different roles to play and a deficiency of any one vitamin can lead to a number of nasty side effects. Whilst they are all equally important, vitamin D is perhaps even more important over Christmas. In this article I will be discussing why vitamin D is particularly important over the festive period and how you can make sure that you get enough. As I discussed in my previous article on vitamin D it is one of the fat soluble vitamins. The main role of vitamin D is to help the body absorb calcium and … [Read more...]
Vitamin D Explained
Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin and is often known as the sunshine vitamin because sunlight can prompt the body to produce it. Early signs of the benefits of vitamin D were discovered in the early nineteenth century when researchers suggested that sunbathing and cod liver oil could cure rickets (softening of the bones in children and young animals which is now known to be caused by vitamin D deficiency). Vitamin D was officially discovered in 1919 when Edward Mellanby raised a group of dogs on nothing but porridge and also kept them inside (unintentionally) meaning they had no exposure to … [Read more...]