In the News
Vitamin D and Sunlight
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Michael F. Holick Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Nutrition, and Diabetes, Vitamin D, Skin and Bone Research Laboratory, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts Correspondence: Dr. Michael F. Holick, Boston University School of Medicine, 715 Albany Street, M-1013, Boston, MA.… continue reading
Study Finds Vitamin D Levels Too Low in Seniors
Thursday, August 28, 2008
By Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS
A new study (1) has found that vitamin D blood levels in seniors is too low and needs to be increased. The study involved 80 participants aged 65 to 89 years of age, 74% of whom had low blood levels of vitamin D (12-31 nanograms per milliliter), yet they consumed more than the recommended 400 to 600 IU per day of vitamin D (2).… continue reading
Skin Cancer and Other Cancers
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Headline Story
Wide publicity this week of a study suggesting that non-melanoma skin cancer patients are more likely to develop all other forms of cancer has falsely made it appear that the skin cancers are causing the other cancers. “The logical leap in all the stories we’ve seen in the past 24 hours is conspicuous,” Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy said.… continue reading
Sunbed Industry Fights Back
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Press Release: ITANZ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The New Zealand indoor tanning industry has responded sharply to research released by Otago University last week. The study reviewed tanning services promoted in Yellow Pages advertisements over a fourteen-year period from 1992 to 2006.… continue reading
Vitamin D + You
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
By Dr. William Davis
For years, vitamin D was the Rodney Dangerfield of the nutrition world: It got no respect. Vitamin D was viewed as a nutrient necessary in children to prevent rickets, a small quantity necessary to prevent osteopenia (bone-thinning) in adults.… continue reading
