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• Adults who were making lifestyle changes to lose weight tended to overestimate how healthy their diet was, according to a new study.
• In addition, self-perceptions of how much their diet improved over the course of the 12- month study were often inaccurate – most thought they improved the quality of their diet, yet there actually was not much change based on researchers’ assessment.
• Future research focused on perceptions vs. reality about nutrition may lead to healthier eating patterns.

It's the vitamin that we get from the sun, yet despite its ample availability, one in three Australian adults still suffers from mild, moderate, or severe vitamin D deficiency.

Now, new research from the University of South Australia gives strong evidence that vitamin D deficiency is associated with premature death, prompting calls for people to follow healthy vitamin D level guidelines.

Published in Annals of Internal Medicine, the study found that the more severe the vitamin D deficiency, the greater the risk of mortality.

Are you looking to bulk up a little but you are running low on time? According to recent research published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology you may be able to get bigger muscles in half of the time, researchers suggest that weight lowering rather than lifting them is the key to boosting muscle strength and size. 

A new study published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes [EASD]) finds that afternoon or evening physical activity is associated with reduced insulin resistance (and thus better blood sugar control) when compared with an even distribution of physical activity through the day. Morning physical activity offered no advantages, concluded the study by Dr. Jeroen van der Velde and colleagues at the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.