Vitamin C is important for keeping your body working and developing properly. It's essential for the development of healthy bones, teeth, gums and blood vessels. Vitamin C also strengthens the immune system, helps the body absorb iron and calcium, helps healing of skin and keeps your brain working properly.
Zinc deficiency is not uncommon. Zinc helps to maintain a healthy immune system as well as encourage skin healing. Recent studies showed that children using zinc supplements had a better mental performance than their counterparts.
Children should get enough calcium in their early and teenage years because their bones grow so rapidly in length, width and shape in such a short time. It is estimated that more than 50% of girls and boys fail to get their recommended daily amounts of calcium.
Staying healthy is almost on everyone’s list every winter. But this year, in the midst of a pandemic, it may be even more of a concern than usual.
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As we continue to dress ourselves up in front of your very eyes, I hereby announce that all the editorial features are back on our site, and we are still standing.
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A considerable amount of studies have shown that the ageing process is usually accompanied by constant low-grade inflammation that researchers call “inflammaging”.
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Try as we might, there aren’t many reasons to embrace winter this year. An underlying jittery panic even for the sunniest amongst us, restrictions which seem to change hourly...
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It is important that you take the correct vitamins and supplements in your 50s to boost your health and vitality. The choice of supplements is overwhelming and the advice given can be confusing.
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