All you need to know about Oxygen
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Dietary nitrates from spinach and other leafy greens, beetroot and berries help the blood vessels relax and lead to better circulation of blood and oxygen in the body, says Dr Anam Golandaz
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Dietary nitrates from spinach and other leafy greens, beetroot and berries help the blood vessels relax and lead to better circulation of blood and oxygen in the body, says Dr Anam Golandaz
Last year’s COVID-19 wave was all about
roti, kapda, makaan (food, clothes, shelter) – the basics, we thought then. This year s intense second wave is making us gasp for breath with a shortage in medical oxygen to treat the critical COVID-19 infected. Doctors tell us everything we need to know about oxygen – the
pollution levels can impact their lungs and health.
In what could be a serious warning against the health hazard arising due to increasing pollution levels, giant faux lungs installed at Kharghar in
Navi Mumbai have turned from chalk white to black in just 10 days.
The lungs-shaped filter was installed in Sector 7 by an environmental organization Watawaran Foundation in order to showcase what polluted air does to our lungs and to raise awareness about the health implications of it.
This comes a month after the study suggested that morning walks could end up doing more damage to health, than doing good to the residents of Kharghar, Taloja and Panvel who were breathing polluted air for 17 hours every day.
Your morning walk may cause more harm than good mid-day.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mid-day.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A view of the city.
A month-long study conducted by an NGO has found that the residents living in the Kharghar-Panvel-Taloja belt are breathing
polluted air.
In fact, the study suggests that morning walks could end up doing more damage to people s health than good.
A month-long
air quality monitoring was carried by the
Waatavaran Foundation between November 13 to December 13, 2020, by installing five low-cost real-time air quality monitors.
One monitor was installed at
MIDC area of
Panvel, sector 36, and sector 7 in
Kharghar and Navade in Taloja.
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