According to the US researchers, the lack of sunshine during winter may cause diminishing vitamin D levels in the body and lead to heart woes.

Sunshine is needed to the body to produce vitamin D, due to less daylight and spending more time indoors in winter can slowdown this process.

Study author Sue Penckofer, who is a professor at the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing at Loyola University in Chicago, says in a university news release: “Chronic vitamin D deficiency may become the cause of high blood pressure, heart disease and metabolic syndrome.”

In their study, Sue and team reviewed many such studies that associated heart disease to vitamin D deficiency. According to these studies, severe heart disease or heart death rates are 30 to 50 percent higher in the patients with sun-deprived heart diseases.

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According to Swedish scientists, adding fish to a child’s diet before nine months of age may decrease the risk of developing eczema.

Eczema is a painful skin condition that has considerably risen in European countries during the past few years. The scientists believe that diet also play a key role in this connection.

In their study, scientists from Sweden tracked the health of children in 5,000 families and found that early use of fish decreased the risk of developing the condition by a quarter.

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The scientists from Venezuela and the United States of America have found an amazing factor that big breakfast including carbohydrates and protein and then containing low carbohydrate and little calorie diet for the rest of the day tended to be more and more successful remedial measure in losing fats and keeping healthy and smart. This plan is being designed for the domestic and job holder women.

This study was presented at The Endocrine Society’s 90th Annual Meeting in San Francisco on Tuesday 17th June, by the guide writer Dr Daniela Jakubowicz of the Hospital de Clinicas, Caracas, Venezuela.

Jakubowicz, who conducted study along with the scientists of the United States from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, elucidated that the most of the weight loss studies have shown us that a very lesser amount of carbohydrate diet is not a good method in reducing the high fats.

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