The high heels, one of the most favorite items for the fashion conscious ladies are not completely good for you, the medical experts have always warned about the drastic affects of high heels and there are many researches on this issue as well.

Narici from Manchester Metropolitan University has worked on this issue and she has reported that due to consistent wearing of high heels something really changes inside your feet, as she has notified that secretaries in the 1950s have always complained about the discomfort when they took off their heels and walk on the flat shoes.

At the same time Robert Csapo, from the University of Vienna, Austria, was visiting Narici’s Active Lifespan Lab, so Narici and Costis Maganaris asked Csapo to test the theory.

Just for testing this theory the calf muscles of the ladies who wear high heels were measured via MRI and no particular difference was found when compared with the ladies wearing flat shoes.

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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. 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”.

Norman has been researching on Vitamin D for at least 50 years and his observation for the Vitamin D intake can’t prove to be doubtful, his laboratory has proven many useful facts regarding Vitamin D and these can effectively help humans in solving different problems of life.

This conception has become very stronger nowadays that weight loss from the pills is near to impossible and if it do comes then you have to face lots of side effects, but hello! This conception is going to be proved wrong and it would be fully scientific.

A new industry funded research report has claimed that a weight loss pill called lorcaser is not only affective for losing your extra pounds but on the other hands the side effects are also near to nothing. The research was lead by Dr. Steven Smith from the Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes in Winter Park, Fla and according to him “In this long-term study of lorcaserin for treating patients for obesity, there was good weight loss, outstanding safety profile and the drug was extremely well-tolerated”.

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Nowadays getting the extra weight reduced from the body is a major concern of almost every person who feels himself/herself fat and the only thing which came to mind for this is to use some sort of weight loss medicines.

A new study has found that majority of the weight loss medicines are no more than the placebos which could be simply called as the fake supplement.

It has been found by the researchers that most of the weight loss medicines contain the ingredient likes: L-Carnitine, polyglucosamine, cabbage powder, guarana seed powder, bean extract, Konjac extract, fiber, sodium alginate and certain plant extracts and most of them are of no use for the weight loss task and thus they are simply fake and useless.

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The religious extremism has never been linked to the mental problems but a recent research by York University researchers, published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology stated that Anxiety and uncertainty can cause us to become more idealistic and radical in our religious beliefs.

A complete study was designed to accomplish these results and during the study 600 participants were placed in the anxiety provoking situation and then they were asked about their personal goals and religious beliefs. After the study it was found that anxious conditions cause the participants to become more willingly engaged towards the extreme thoughts of their religious conviction.

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