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Vitamin D deficiency or Sunlight deficiency
Saturday, September 19, 2015
People at a high risk of vitamin D deficiency and particularly those with a combination of risk factors should be treated with vitamin D supplementation. Additionally, they should be encouraged to seek some sun exposure – keeping in mind that short periods of sun exposure to a large area of skin is best for vitamin D production, and safest in terms of skin cancer risk. continue reading
7 Ways To Improve Your Mood In Winter & Fall
Saturday, September 19, 2015
3. Consider A Sunlight Simulator
The NIH also recommended light therapy as an effective way to feel better during the darker months, even reporting a 70 percent improvement among patients who sat under a sun lamp daily for several weeks. continue reading
Radiotherapy ’causes cancer to spread’
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
But some experts warn that doctors should avoid using it for skin cancer because it can hasten the spread of the disease. Researchers found when radiotherapy was used to treat skin cancer in mice, certain cells within the tumour were able to resist it. continue reading
The role of vitamin D in athletic performance
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Until recently, the relationship between vitamin D and athletic performance received minimal attention. My colleagues and I began to evaluate this relationship in 2009, when we wrote the first paper about vitamin D and athletes in 50 years. continue reading
Vitamin D Is Not Harmful to Adolescents
Friday, September 4, 2015
First, it only involved nineteen obese adolescents, 13-18 years of age, which is a small sample size. But that’s not the major problem. The bigger problem, by far, is that they decided to test the efficacy of vitamin D supplementation by treating the adolescents with 100,000 IU of vitamin D3 orally once a month for 3 months. continue reading
