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shop sign malfunction
Friday, March 31, 2017
Fakin It tanning salon in Highams Park suffers unfortunate shop sign malfunction continue reading
Does Vitamin D decrease risk of cancer?
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
"While people can make their own vitamin D3 when they are in the sun near mid-day, sunscreen blocks most vitamin D production. Also, due to more time spent indoors, many individuals are lacking adequate levels of vitamin D compounds in their blood," Lappe said. "The results of this study lend credence to a call for more attention to the importance of vitamin D in human health and specifically in preventing cancer" Lappe said. continue reading
UV Critics Sizzling Over Bacon?
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Late 2015, the World Health Organization shocked many in the public health community by adding processed meat, such as bacon, to its list of substances it considers carcinogenic to humans. Bacon now joins tobacco, plutonium and arsenic in that often misunderstood category – a category that has also included UV exposure from the sun or a sunbed since 2009. continue reading
Are athletes realizing the importance of vitamin D before the general public?
Monday, March 27, 2017
The study also determined that vitamin D sufficient players were nearly three years older than vitamin D insufficient players.The study revealed that none of the hockey players were vitamin D deficient as defined by levels less than 20 ng/ml. In fact, the average vitamin D status was 45.8 ng/ml (in Canada that would be 114.5nmol/L), ... continue reading
Is Sunlight The Best Medicine?
Monday, March 27, 2017
Because: The discovery of penicillin and other chemically manufactured drugs plus the fanatic fear-driven propaganda against sunlight with the purpose of selling chemical sunscreen lotions, have made us forget the wisdom and knowledge collected by our ancestors since the beginning of humankind, namely that the sun is necessary for all life on Earth, and that Man is no exclusion. continue reading
