Friday, August 23, 2013

Know about the Facebook Mobile App Store

Facebook for iPhone and iPad is designed with the new iTunes U App with updated version 4 that has improved browsing and searching features and enables you to navigate very fast with a slide and a pinch to move from one screen to another. Facebook apps and games can be accessed from iPad wherever you are. We can check out our friends who are nearby with the Nearby map.

Ibooks Author is a new amazing app that is available free on mac app store and allows anybody to create and publish electronic textbook reader for iPad.

Spelltower: It runs on iOS, it is a word puzzle game, used to make words from letter tiles with a task to reach highest score out of 150 letters.

The iTunes U app must be compatible with iPhone and iPad touch with optimized search for anything on Facebook which includes people, apps, pages, subscriptions. It works faster and has is more efficient.

Vitamins That Improve Your Eyesight

Just as the vitamins needed for proper functioning of the different organs of the body, the eyes also need some vitamins for improving proper eyesight, optimum vision health, and improve vision naturally.

Eating a healthy balanced diet, you can get rid of most of the health problems. Some people do not get all the vitamins even eating a balanced healthy diet. There are certain key vitamins that allow the eye to function at optimum levels. These vitamins nourish the eye, increase blood circulation, reduce eye strain and irritation, reduce eye pressure, strengthen capillaries, improve night vision, enhance visual acuity, and much more.

Improving eye care have benefits like to improve clearer vision naturally without using glasses, contacts, or eye surgery, and to improve eye health for less eye strain and dry eyes and to protect against eye diseases like cataracts, glaucoma and muscular degeneration.

Below are some of the vitamins that will help to improve your eyesight.

Vitamin A is the most important vitamin required for good eyesight. Vitamin A protects the surface of your eye from viral and bacterial infections. This vitamin deficiency results variety of visual disturbances like dry eyes, clouding in the front part of the eye, damage to the retina and night blindness. Sources of vitamin A include liver, whole milk, carrots, spinach and sweet potatoes.

Vitamin E: Age-related muscular degeneration is a common cause of poor eyesight. The muscules, which are located on the back of the eye, are responsible for focusing and sharpening vision. Vitamin E prevents degeneration of the muscular tissues in the eye. This vitamin is found in nuts, including peanuts, almonds and hazelnuts.

Vitamin C helps in the formation of the blood vessels in the retina, the back part of the eye that receives the light and images from outside environment, and maintains the connective tissue within the cornea, the transparent covering of the front part of the eye. Without vitamin C, these structures do not  form properly, and this can lead to a decrease in eyesight. Vitamin C can be found in red and green peppers, broccoli, oranges and strawberries.

Alpha-Lipoic Acid, bilberry, Bioflavonoids, Chromium, Copper Gluconate, Glutathione, Lutheran, N-Acetylene Cysteine (NAC), Quercetin, Rutin, Selenium, Zinc, and so on are the additional vitamins and minerals needed for improving your eye sight.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Symptoms Due to Vitamin-B5 Deficiency

Chemically pantothenic, Vitamin B5 is water soluble as the other members in the group of vitamin B complex. It is so named as it comes from Greek word 'pantos' implying everywhere. That is, the vitamin is found almost every food source.

It is rare to anyone to be deficient in this vitamin

Causes:
The most common causes are because of problems extracting from the vitamin B5 from food or because the nutrient is not present in the food to begin with. The major cause for these deficiency is any problem in the digestive tract. Which is mainly seen in people who intake too much of alcohol or caffeine, these two do not allow the body to absorb these vitamin quickly enough before the food is passing through the digestive tract. Some certain medications also can cause these deficiency, which includes many antibiotics, sleeping pills, and birth controlling pills etc.

Symptoms:
These deficiency is often related to low energy related symptoms include fatigue, listlessness, and sensations of weakness. The rare symptom of these deficiency is burning food syndrome, in this the numbness and tingling are together with burning and shooting pain in feet. Some other symptoms includes insomnia, irritability, upper respiratory infections etc.

Health Issues:
The health issues arises due to these deficiency includes adrenal insufficiency, cataracts, burning foot syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, general fatigue, hyperlipidemia (high levels of fat in the blood), osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis.

Food Sources:
Some of the sources for deficiency in vitamin B5 are, chicken, beef, potatoes, oats, cereals and tomatoes.