Iron

In a sad turn of events, a student at a school in Ooty died on Thursday, three days after playing the 'dare game' of eating the maximum number of iron tablets kept in the headmaster's room. 13-year-old Jaiba Fatima swallowed 45 ...

Buckwheat (kuttu) is a highly-nutritious superfood that may help improve heart health, manage diabetes, promote weight loss and prevent iron deficiency in the body. It is a good source of protein, fibre, iron, potassium, calcium, selenium, manganese, folate, vitamin B complex ...

Breathing is an important behaviour and is vital for survival and numerous body functions. It is an involuntary action performed by the body without any effort and thoughts. According to a study, in an hour, a healthy individual takes around 700 ...

Anaemia affects around one-fourth of the population globally; According to a study based on a review of 44 studies conducted on 19 European countries, 2-25 per cent of infants who are between 6-12 months were found deficient in iron, especially those ...

Food combinations come under an extremely popular diet and eating rules with amazing health benefits. Among such food-combination diets, the benefits of eating dates with milk or particularly, eating dates soaked in milk are well documented in some studies. Dates ...

Every year on 24 January, the National Girl Child Day is celebrated to highlight gender-based discriminations and inequalities faced by girl children in the Indian society and to raise awareness to change the attitude towards them followed by providing them support ...

Pregnant women are more vulnerable to iron deficiency as they need more of this vital nutrient to supply to the growing foetus and simultaneously, improve their count of red blood cells. Around two-thirds of the total body's iron is for maternal ...

Our body requires every nutrient in some amount and iron is one among them. This nutrient is an important component of haemoglobin, a kind of protein found in the red blood cells responsible to carry oxygen from lungs to every body ...

Our body requires iron to make healthy red blood cells (RBCs) so that it can help in the transportation of oxygen from the lungs to other parts of the body. Iron is an important nutrient in the making of haemoglobin, a ...

We all know that iron is an essential mineral required for the production of haemoglobin and it has a role in a variety of other important processes in the body. But, what happens if a person isn't getting enough amount of ...

It is always good to clean the bottom of your iron at regular intervals to increase its efficiency and lifespan. Steam irons must be properly maintained. In order to avoid the iron dragging as you move it and to escape from ...

Adzuki beans, which have other names like azuki, aduki and English red mung, belong to the Fabaceae or Leguminosae family. The word "azuki" means "small" in Japanese, and these beans measure around 5 mm and are red in colour. They originated ...