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Grass Roots Health Director Carole Baggerly Presents: What Does Vitamin D Ignorance Cost Us?

Friday, February 26, 2021
It’s Video Friday! In this video, GrassrootsHealth’s Founder and Director, Carole Baggerly, presents to Chris Göthel and the audience at the Academy of Human Medicine in Germany about the importance of vitamin D for many aspects of health, .... continue reading

Fighting diseases, fighting depression: Why vitamin D is essential

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Fighting diseases, fighting depression: Why vitamin D is essential

Arpita Chatterjee
·3 min read
Photo by Susanne Jutzeler from Pexels
The benefits of Vitamin D make it one of the essential nutrients for the body.
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Alberta Relief for working parents 

Wednesday, February 24, 2021
The Working Parents Benefit will see $108 million go to families that used child care – including licensed or unlicensed daycare, day homes, out-of-school care, or preschool – from April to December of 2020. continue reading

Sunlight Institute Responses to Sun Articles 214

Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Sunlight Institute Responses to Sun Articles 214   http://mountaintimes.info/with-age-comes-wisdom/ Sun exposure has decreased profoundly since the times you are discussing. The result of all this sun protection has not been pretty. Here are some facts you should know about the healthful effects of sun exposure, many of which we have lost due to our indoor lifestyles and out tendency to slather ourselves with sunscreens:
  • Sun exposure kills the Covid-19 virus outside the body very quickly, and the vitamin D produced by the skin in response to sunlight dramatically reduces the risk of dying of Covid-19—as much as 50-plus percent!
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Studies Found WHO Report on Sunbeds Unbalanced and Inaccurate

Wednesday, February 24, 2021
The World Health Organization and a European SCHEER Report misrepresented the quality of the research used and omitted relevant confounding information in the groups’ most recent publications on sunbeds, according to research reports published in the journal Anticancer Research. continue reading

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