Dark chocolate being a great source of antioxidants and polyphenols and a good alternative for sugar-laden sweets has been gaining popularity among fitness enthusiasts. Doctor tweets about its darker side Dr Sudhir Kumar, Senior Consultant Neurologist, Apollo Hospital, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad recently tweeted about the darker side of dark chocolates and wrote that some dark chocolate bars contain cadmium and …
Joggers and other fitness fans are increasingly turning to smartwatches to measure their heart rate during exercise and for overall health monitoring. The study suggests this may be because the signalling process, which uses beams of light to detect heart rate and rhythm, might not work as well on darker skin that contains more melanin, as it absorbs more light. …
Nadeen Bender stood outside her home, a tattered two-man tent, surrounded by the re-purposed Amazon Prime boxes she uses to store her life’s belongings. To deal with an exploding homeless population and encourage social distancing during the pandemic, Marcipoa County officials turned this pair of asphalt-topped parking lots into the area’s newest homeless shelter. “It’s not just the pandemic, it’s …
Doctors will finally trial whether vitamin D can actually protect people from Covid-19 amid mounting evidence the 3p-a-day supplement could be a life-saver. A Singaporean study earlier in the year of nearly 800 people found almost 99% of Covid-19 patients who died had vitamin D deficiency CARE HOME RESIDENTS 'SHOULD BE GIVEN VITAMIN D' Care home residents are not being …