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What You Need To Know About Vitamin D Deficiency And How To Prevent It

A voluntary blood testing was performed among 369 randomly selected Metro Manila office workers and the results revealed that 58% were vitamin D- deficient while 30% shown to have insufficient levels of vitamin D – Philippine College of Occupational Medicine (PCOM) director Dr. Marilou Renales

It was surprising to know that there is such a thing as Vitamin D Deficiency.

Vitamin D is an essential vitamin that can be manufactured by our own body with sunlight exposure. The sunlight exposure required to get the enough Vitamin D needed by our body depends on the time of the day, geographical location and your skin pigmentation. Dark skinned people needs more sun exposure since eumelanin (the most common type of Melanin) acts as natural sun screen protection. But we all know how sun exposure can be damaging to the skin, nyaks! So where to get Vitamin D?

Vitamin D can also be found in food, such as milk, but you need to consume a lot. An 8 ounce glass of milk contains 100 IUs of vitamin D, our body needs 800 IU of Vitamin D, do the math.

Can you drink that much milk in one day? Wait! Why do we need Vitamin D? What are the effects of having less Vitamin D?

Our body needs Vitamin D for calcium absorption and promote bone growth. Other benefits that we can get from Vitamin D:

What happens when we have Vitamin D deficiency?

With the above mentioned benefits from Vitamin D, I guess you now have an idea what happens when you don’t have enough Vitamin D in your body. Since Vitamin D aides in the absorption of Calcium, Vitamin D deficiency has a great effect on our bones. Rickets and osteomalacia are some vitamin D deficiency diseases.

Aside from sunlight and food, another way to get the enough Vitamin D our body needs is through supplement. The newest product from Unilab, a Vitamin D supplement, was recently launched:

Forti- D, the latest vitamin D supplement in the market, is a single- dose supplement that contains 800 IU of Vitamin D. “Taking one capsule of Forti- D every day helps reduce the rick of getting chronic diseases by unlocking the proper function of organs typically affected by such illnesses,” said Alex Panlilio, Unilab VP for consumer health.

Forti- D is now available in the market, sold at P6.50 (SRP).

WeChat Rolls out Stickers for Women’s Day: Mommy Pehpot aka Miss Live Wire

In celebration of Women’s Month this March, WeChat rolls out a new set of stickers available via its Sticker Shop. And so I asked a few friends which sticker/ character suits me, almost all answered Miss Live Wire:

Mukhang namang tama sila hahaha

Eto si Miss Live Wire:

These are the alpha females, the go-getters, and the starters whose prowess to soldier on often wins the day. Born with equal amounts of energy and blood pumping in their veins, they are the epitome of this year’s theme for International Women’s Day: Inspiring Change. An ideal match for this group’s get-up-and-go attitude is WeChat’s Group Chat feature, which lets them rally multiple contacts and circles—up to 100 people in two chat groups—in one go.

Definitely a go- getter! Remember the Frozen Party where I diyed almost everything? The Olaf fondant cake included.. and I have no background on baking, I just learned how to bake this year and no background on fondant too, but when I said I’ll make an Olaf fondant cake, I will make one.

Pero there’s a little Miss Sweetness Alive on me naman 🙂

Refined in nature and as charming as the female protagonists in children’s storybooks, these women are built with warmth and without a single bitch bone in their bodies. Their innate ability to make others feel comfortable makes them the go-to people for sound advices and just about any conversation that hits close to home. Spot them on WeChat Moments sharing quick DIY posts or motivational photos for everyone’s dose of TLC.

And a little bit of Miss Atlas Trouper (because I love maps! Haha)

Ever mobile and fueled by a growing range of influences, these women are the natural wanderers of the world. Breaking through boundaries is where it’s at for these folks and hitting the road is their way of responding to their internal quests. Easily detectable, atlas troupers are the first ones to use WeChat’s location-sharing and discovery features such as Shake, Friend Radar, and People Nearby to mark their lives’ checkpoints while looping in their social groups.

Miss Get Happy will never me daw, kase I tend to intimidate people LOL hindi po ako nangangain ng buhay, I can be Miss Get Happy if I want to hahahaha

Radical in the way they act and always able to churn out inventive thoughts, this group is comprised of people who never fail to raise spirits up with their lightheartedness, infectious laughter, and sunny disposition. In the spirit of painting the town happy, this bunch can count on WeChat to easily surprise friends through picker-uppers in the form of Hold-to-Talk voice notes and video calls.

How about you ladies? Which sticker represents you?

About WeChat

WeChat envisions and innovates new ways for people to connect, communicate and share. A mobile social communication app designed for smartphone users, WeChat is the world’s fastest growing social app with over 100 million registered accounts internationally.

WeChat empowers users in fun and dynamic ways by bringing together messaging, social communication and gaming in one seamless, interactive experience, with comprehensive privacy and security settings that can be tailored as needed.

WeChat is an all-in-one app that enables users to add friends with several innovative features. These include highly convenient and reliable QR code scanning, phonebook and location-based connection services such as “Hold Together”, “People Nearby” and “Shake.” The platform facilitates social interaction with real-time “Walkie Talkie,” “Voice Call,” and “Video Call.” Supported on data networks and Wi-Fi, WeChat makes it easy to stay connected with friends anywhere, anytime. Users can choose to communicate and share photos one-on-one, or within their closed social network through “Moments”. The popular WeChat Sticker Shop has a variety of fun animated emoticons to express any emotion. Also, with a host of addictive WeChat Games, users can play and challenge their friends on the move, share scores and even find competitors nearby.

WeChat is available free for download on Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Symbian and Windows operating systems.

Learn more about WeChat and download the app at www.wechat.com

WeChat Philippines Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/WeChatPH

Western Union® Mother’s Pride Contest

Yesterday was third son’s moving up ceremony.. he’ll be Grade One this coming school year. I am very proud of him for his achievement.. my third boy who is the shyest of them all is now a graduate (or a mover as k-12 rule says no graduation for preschoolers hehe)

I am sure OFW moms wish to celebrate graduation with their kids here in the country, and Western Union heard that. That is why Western Union pays tribute to mother’s love.

PRESS RELEASE:

Rewarding Filipina moms with the chance to celebrate Graduation Day with their child back home

United Kingdom, March 17, 2014 – Ten Filipina working moms in the United Kingdom (UK) will get to spend a special Graduation Day dinner with their child in the Philippines as a reward for their unwavering dedication to providing a better life back home, The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU), a leader in global payment services, announced today.

Through the Western Union^® Mother’s Pride contest, the top ten Filipina moms in the UK who post their sweetest picture of themselves and their graduating child on Facebook (www.facebook.com/WesternUnionUK), Twitter or Instagram (#Wumotherspride) and collect the most votes, will be rewarded with two Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 tablets each to stay in touch with their loved ones, starting with a specially prepared “online dinner” to celebrate their child’s graduation.

With the POEA estimating at least 220,000 Overseas Filipinos and a growing need for nurses and caregivers in the UK, more and more Filipinas every year are making the choice to leave the country to create a brighter future for their loved ones back home.

Education is consistently a top consideration for migration among most working Filipina mothers. Research shows the allocation of monthly remittances include paying for tuition fees, and other school related expenses like baon or allowances¹.

“Filipinos are a close-knit community. We value our family ties more than anything in the world. As a full-time working mom who needs to travel frequently, I know the hardest part for a Filipina in working overseas is being away from family and kids. And to a mother, there’s nothing more fulfilling and telling of one’s hard earned success than the graduation of her child,” said Patricia Riingen, senior vice president, Southeast Asia & Oceania, Western Union.

“Western Union ‘Mother’s Pride’ aims to amplify this affection. It is also our tribute to a mother’s love,” Riingen added.

The Western Union^® Mother’s Pride contest runs until March 24, 2014. For more information, please visit www.westernunion.co.uk/WUmotherspride. Terms and conditions apply.

About Western Union

The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) is a leader in global payment services. Together with its Vigo, Orlandi Valuta, Pago Facil and Western Union Business Solutions branded payment services, Western Union provides consumers and businesses with fast, reliable and convenient ways to send and receive money around the world, to send payments and to purchase money orders. As of December 31, 2013, the Western Union, Vigo and Orlandi Valuta branded services were offered through a combined network of over 500,000 agent locations in 200 countries and territories and over 100,000 ATMs. In 2013, The Western Union Company completed 242 million consumer-to-consumer transactions worldwide, moving $82 billion of principal between consumers, and 459 million business payments. For more information, visit www.westernunion.com.

¹ Source: Western Union Consumer Tracking Study,