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Businesses: Add or update your email address now to avoid missing important CRA messages

Wednesday, December 10, 2025
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) now sends most business correspondence online through the My Business Account portal in your CRA account, instead of by paper mail. To make sure you receive notifications when new mail or important changes occur, add or update your email address in your CRA account. continue reading

It Is Time for HHS to Update Its Vitamin D Policies

Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Imagine a government policy based on a math error—one that affects the bones, hearts, lungs, and pregnancies of millions of Americans every day. Now imagine that error has persisted for more than a decade. That is the situation with the U.S. federal government’s guidance on vitamin D. Despite its profound importance for immune function, pregnancy, cancer outcomes, cardiovascular health, and respiratory infections, vitamin D policy in the United States remains stuck in 2011—not because of scientific consensus, but because of a now well-documented statistical miscalculation. continue reading

Does more sun exposure make you live longer? Here’s what a UK neuroscientist said

Monday, December 8, 2025
He said: “A few dermatologists are reevaluating the issue of sunlight on the human body. And the leader of that is a character called Richard Weller from Edinburgh. And he is going back over all the data and Richard’s coming out and saying, ‘You know, all-cause mortality is lower in people that get a lot of sunlight. And his argument is that, ‘the only thing you got to avoid is sunburn.’” continue reading

Sunburn Prevention: The Golden Rule of Smart Tanning

Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Everything we do as indoor tanning professionals is based upon the underlying premise of sunburn prevention. continue reading

Vitamin D the prescription for the Okanagan’s gray days

Tuesday, December 2, 2025
“Studies have found that people with low vitamin D are at higher risk of many serious diseases such as cardiovascular disease, major cancers such as breast and colorectal, autoimmune diseases such as diabetes and multiple sclerosis and even infections, flus, and colds,” says the Woodstock, Ont.-based  Vitamin D Society.  continue reading

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