Vitamin D deficiency is a common issue, affecting 1 billion people worldwide. That’s about 50% of the global population. Researchers are still uncovering the many roles vitamin D plays in keeping our bodies strong and ...

As the mother of two girls, I do my best to keep them as healthy as I can. I try to provide nutritious meals (although they don’t always eat them) and make sure they get ...

The stay-at-home orders during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 led to decreased physical activity in children and an increase in screen time, finds two new studies from the Brown School at Washington ...

As many states opens up COVID-19 vaccination eligibility to everyone age 16 and older, UC San Diego Health sports medicine specialists Samuel Galloway, MD, and Alan Shahtaji, DO, provide some exercise tips  and information of what people ...

Dietary strategies aimed at supporting immunity to fight COVID-19 are continually being considered. Unfortunately, as in the case of drugs, studies in humans have not confirmed any specific food components to be effective in the ...

With many kids back in the classroom and the entire family spending more time indoors, coughs and sick days may not be far behind. In addition to frequent handwashing and using hand sanitizers, eating antioxidant-rich ...