In the News
November is Vitamin D Awareness Month
Friday, November 27, 2015
The Canadian-based non-profit organization has been proclaiming November as Vitamin D Awareness Month since 2007. continue reading
JCTA Response to Spa Magazine Canada article “Caution to Winter Tanners”
Thursday, November 26, 2015
The CCS has misled you about the risk of using a professional tanning salon. continue reading
‘Vitally Important Study on Sunlight, MS’: Sunlight Institute
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
A new study explains the various mechanisms by which sun exposure can protect against and improve the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis, the Sunlight Institute‘s Marc Sorenson reports. continue reading
The Problem With the WHO’s Great Meat Conspiracy
Monday, November 23, 2015
The group also includes sunlight on one end of the spectrum, which occurs naturally and provides the Vitamin D necessary for humans to live, and tobacco, which increases lung cancer risk by 2,500%. This wildly distortive categorization is based on strength of evidence, not degree of risk. Lumping these things together risks the IARC and, by extension, the WHO becoming the boy who cried wolf. continue reading
Vitamin D Level Necessary to Help Reduce Risk of Preterm Births
Friday, November 20, 2015
GrassrootsHealth announces that on November 10, 2015 a study published in The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology showed a 59% lower risk for premature birth by pregnant women who had blood levels of vitamin D (25(OH)D) at or over 40 ng/ml by their third trimester than women who had levels below 20 ng/ml. continue reading
