Do we need Vitamin D tablets?

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We need vitamin D primarily for healthy bones. But it is also supposed to help against various other diseases. Here’s what science says. When we speak of vitamin D, we are not referring to a specific substance or vitamin. Scientists use the term more or less as a generic term for a group of fat-soluble vitamins – the so-called calciferous. The most important forms include vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) and vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol). The human body can only form vitamin D under light, UV-B radiation. Vitamin D is often called “the…

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Sport: How much of it is good for us?

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Sports and exercise are essential for our bodies. But how often and how long we should exercise is not so easy to figure out. We can’t do without movement.We are genetically programmed to move. Even a short walk is good for the joints, and a sweaty workout gets the cardiovascular system going. Our bodies benefit from this even during rest periods because regular exercise strengthens the heart in the long term. The result: fewer strokes and heart attacks. Diseases such as diabetes, dementia, and cancer are also positively influenced by…

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The sense of smell is often underestimated

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The human sense of smell is also essential for mental health, harmonious relationships, and solving everyday problems. After a corona infection, the sense of smell is impaired in many people. Some can never smell again. Other diseases or accidents can also trigger this. For those affected, the loss means more tremendous suffering than expected. Because smelling also has a lot to do with feelings. Hundreds of thousands of people who have contracted the coronavirus are currently experiencing what life is like without their sense of smell. Temporarily losing one’s sense…

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Around 6,000 new infections in Austria

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This brings the number of active Corona cases down to 85,380. Fifty-six thousand thirty-three new PCR tests were made in the past 24 hours. This results in a positive rate of 10.62 percent. There are also 17 new deaths. This means that 19,194 people with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died across Austria. There are currently 1,461 people receiving treatment in hospitals. There are 73 patients in intensive care units. New infections in the provincesVienna: 1,843Lower Austria: 1,292Styria: 798Upper Austria: 768Carinthia: 345Tyrol: 306Salzburg: 292Burgenland: 201Vorarlberg: 108 source: sozialministerium.at

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Why do some people get bitten by mosquitoes more often than others?

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Some people seem magically attracted to mosquitoes, while the insects maltreat others. Why is that – and is there any truth to the myth of “sweet blood”? “The sweet blood myth is a myth and nothing more.” Doreen Werner, a biologist and mosquito expert at the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research in Müncheberg (Brandenburg), assures us. But some factors can cause people to be bitten by mosquitoes more often than others. The exhaled air What mosquitoes are particularly keen on, and who less so, depends first and foremost on…

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So far, 160 monkeypox cases in Austria

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There have been 160 reported monkeypox cases in Austria so far. Meanwhile, the Health Ministry said that the expected second shipment of monkeypox vaccine has arrived in Austria. Forty-five people who contracted monkeypox in Austria have already been reported as recovered in the Epidemiological Monitoring Register (EMS). This is according to the update of case numbers on the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) website on Friday. This means that 28 cases have been added since Monday. The second shipment of the monkeypox vaccine arrives in Austria.The ministry announced…

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Climate change gets serious: These countries could be uninhabitable by 2070 because of the heat

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A Massachusetts Institute of Technology study reveals that numerous countries will likely be uninhabitable in a few years because of global warming. Temperatures are also rising in the summer of 2022, but if you look at climate predictions, the temperature rise is no cause for celebration. According to a report by researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, published in the scientific journal PNAS, some 3.5 billion people are expected to suffer from extreme heat in 50 years. That’s almost half the world’s population. Which countries are we talking about?According…

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42,000 Viennese get 200 euros against inflation

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Around 42,000 Viennese will be paid an energy cost lump sum of 200 euros to cushion the current inflation and rising energy prices. Vienna puts together a package to combat high energy costs Energy prices: Here, there is a reliefRecently, the energy cost lump sum of 200 euros against inflation has already received about 192,000 people with minimum security, housing assistance, or an unemployment benefit in Vienna. Compensatory allowance recipients in Vienna receive 200 euros for inflationThirteen thousand single parents with Mindestsicherungs- or Wohnbeihilfebezug would have already received a further…

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Expert estimate of Covid immunity rate at around 70 percent in Austria

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An estimated 70 percent of the population was immune to infection with the subtypes of the omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen (BA.2 and BA.4/5) that dominate in Austria, according to a model calculation by simulation researchers at the beginning of August. Such high levels were last seen in the monthly “Model-Based Estimate of Immunization Levels” between March and May. There would be question marks behind future estimates because of changes in the pandemic data. The team led by Martin Bicher of the Vienna University of Technology (TU) and dwh,…

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