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LOS EXPERTOS creen que la mayoría no recibimos suficiente vitamina D, una hormona fabricada por la piel con la ayuda de la luz solar. Las personas con niveles bajos de vitamina D en sangre tienen tasas significativamente más altas de casi todas las enfermedades en las que puedas pensar: cáncer, diabetes, obesidad, osteoporosis, infartos, accidentes cerebrovasculares, depresión, deterioro cognitivo, enfermedades autoinmunes, etc.
Es difícil obtener vitamina D en cantidades suficientes a través de la dieta. Cuando nuestros antepasados vivían al aire libre en regiones tropicales, no era un problema. Sus cuerpos, probablemente no totalmente cubiertos por ropa, producían toda la vitamina D que necesitaban gracias a la exposición al sol.
Pero hoy día, el 90 por ciento de la población pasamos alrededor de 22 horas al día en espacios cerrados, según investigaciones de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) con sede en Estados Unidos. Y cuando salimos al exterior, se nos ha enseñado a usar protector solar para protegernos de los peligrosos rayos UV, que pueden causar cáncer de piel. Dado que el protector solar puede reducir nuestra producción natural de vitamina D, nos han dicho que lo compensemos con suplementos de vitamina D. Sin embargo, en uno de los mayores ensayos jamás realizado, publicado en el New England Journal of Medicine en 2019, en el que 25.871 participantes recibieron altas dosis de suplementos de vitamina D durante cinco años, no encontraron ningún impacto en cáncer, enfermedades cardiacas o accidentes cerebrovasculares.
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CHICAGO ON THE SEINE CAMILLE BORDAS
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A SEMBLANCE OF PEACE
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MOVE IN FOR THE CULL
The complicated calculus of killing some wild creatures to protect others.
FOND OF FLAGS
My wife is fond of fast food. I am not. My wife is particularly fond of the Wendy’s Baconator. I argue that it’s less expensive to order a Dave’s Double with a side of bacon, then put your own pretzels on top. (I’m fond of the Rold Gold Tiny Twists Original.)
TROPHY ROOM
Going on safari.
SCREEN GRAB
How CoComelon conquered children's television.
SICK, SAD WORLD
What COVID did to fiction.
GREAT MIGRATIONS
\"Home\" and \"What Became of Us.\"
HIS BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY
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EVERYTHING IN HAND
The C.I.A.'s covert ops have mattered-but not in the way that it hoped.
SPACEX'S MEGA ROCKET COMPLETES ITS FOURTH TEST FLIGHT FROM TEXAS
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A group of OpenAI’s current and former workers is calling on the ChatGPT-maker and other artificial intelligence companies to protect employees who flag safety risks about AI technology.
GOOGLE MAKES FIXES TO AI-GENERATED SEARCH SUMMARIES AFTER OUTLANDISH ANSWERS WENT VIRAL
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SOFTWARE GIANT SAP AGREES TO BUY WALKME FOR $1.5 BILLION CASH
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A NEW 'HUNGER GAMES' BOOK - AND MOVIE - IS COMING
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LIFE AS A TEEN WITHOUT SOCIAL MEDIA ISN'T EASY.THESE FAMILIES ARE NAVIGATING ADOLESCENCE OFFLINE
Kate Bulkeley’s pledge to stay off social media in high school worked at first. She watched the benefits pile up: She was getting excellent grades. She read lots of books.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE WISH THEY'D KNOWN ABOUT SOCIAL MEDI
It's dangerous. It's addictive. Get off your phone.
Wellness
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Online marketplace behemoth eBay said it plans to no longer accept American Express, citing what the company says are “unacceptably high fees” and that customers have other payment options to shop online.
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BOEING LAUNCHES NASA ASTRONAUTS FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER YEARS OF DELAYS
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NEW ORLEANS PLANS TO SPIFF UP AS HOST OF NEXT YEAR'S SUPER BOWL
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AI IS IMITATING THE DEAD AND DYING, RAISING NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT GRIEVINGY
When Michael Bommer found out that he was terminally ill with colon cancer, he spent a lot of time with his wife, Anett, talking about what would happen after his death.
GM PROMOTES 2 FORMER APPLE EXECUTIVES TO KEY ROLES IN DEVELOPING SOFTWARE AND DIGITAL SERVICES
General Motors has promoted two former Apple executives to run its software and services operations as it ramps up efforts to develop and market electric, autonomous and connected vehicles.
WHAT I'VE LEARNED at 75
THE STAR OF FOXY BROWN IS PROUD TO HAVE BLAZED A DIFFERENT PATH FOR WOMEN OF COLOR IN HOLLYWOOD