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Vitamin D. How exactly does sun exposure lead to healthy bones?

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Vitamin D. How exactly does sun exposure lead to healthy bones?

In Apran’s blog we have already touched on the importance of Vitamin D. However, there is a heightened risk of Vitamin D deficiency during the winter months. Therefore, we feel it important that the vitamin gets its own article.
In our story about the vitamin order origin, we have established the definition of a vitamin – a substance that is essential for the proper functioning of the body, but cannot be synthesized by it. In that sense Vitamin D is a curious exception – considered a hybrid between a vitamin and a hormone. Learn more about it in the article!

Protect your health during your ski vacation

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Protect your health during your ski vacation

Cold makes you sick. So much so, that the most common sickness itself is called a cold. This automatic thought is so deeply engraved in our brains we never seem to think about any logic behind it.
How does the cold weather affect our immune system?
It is particularly important to know why and how you need to protect your immune system while being in the cold for a prolonged period, especially if you are changing to the colder mountain climate suddenly – during your winter or ski vacation.
Contrary to popular belief…

Tips to maintain good mood during the short days and cold weather

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Tips to maintain good mood during the short days and cold weather

Have you caught yourself feeling sort of nostalgic during rainy days? Winter puts you down? Fatigue becomes harder and harder to fight as it gets colder and darker? You kind of want to stay home, not interact with friends nor family and rather just sleep?
You are not the only one. Studies suggest a limited exposure to light, among other factors that come together during the winter, might be the cause for your bad mood and lack of energy. The condition otherwise known as SAD – Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Eating healthy, but not feeling healthy? Read this article.

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Eating healthy, but not feeling healthy? Read this article.

There is a side of healthy eating you hear about very rarely. Cliché as it may sound, we are what we eat. Taking in the right food and vitamins in the right quantity is essential for your health. Plenty of information is available about nutrients, calories, carbohydrates, superfoods and everything under the sun that has to do with what you have to eat. But there is not enough information about what happens after that.