Harms of smoking in numbers

Are people with Type O blood more attractive to mosquitoes?

Mosquitoes have no preference for a specific blood type.

Whole grains: A good dietary choice to stay healthy

According to the degree of processing, grains can be divided into refined grains and whole grains.

Nutritional value of kiwi fruit

The kiwi fruit originated in China, and, among its 66 varieties, 62 scatter around the country. Kiwi fruit seeds were not sent to New Zealand or other parts of world until a century ago. After 40 years of industrial development, China has become the world's largest producer of kiwi fruit, whose output accounts for approximately 60 percent of the world's total.

How to help children with delayed growth?

China marked the 34th Chinese Student Nutrition Day on May 20. This year's theme is "Scientific Diet Supports Children's Healthy Growth".

The healthy way to eat nuts

Nuts are generally categorized as tree nuts and seed nuts. Tree nuts include hazelnuts, walnuts, pine nuts, almonds, pistachios and chestnuts, and their seeds are usually encased in hard shells. Seed nuts from herbaceous plants, such as sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and sesame, do not usually have hard shells and are mostly flat or oval in shape. Seed nuts are often used in baking or as seasoning.

How to deal with lupus?

Lupus is named as such due to skin manifestations on patients' face that are similar to irregular erythema after being bitten by wolves, and its acute onset.

Health tips for drinking water

On dry and windy spring days, people are prone to getting sore eyes, dry throats with a bitter taste, dry skin, ulcerated corners of the mouth and a hot nasal cavity. It's necessary to get enough water for the body.

Gout Day with concern Universal

The 8th Gout Day with concern Universal fell on Apr 20, 2023. The figure 420 happens to be the critical value for the diagnosis of hyperuricemia. Hyperuricemia can be diagnosed if an individual's serum uric acid (SUA) level exceeds 420umol/L twice on different days. Gout is a common complication of hyperuricemia.

Learn about calcium supplementation during pregnancy