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Angry Readers Want To Ban ‘Cosmo’

Wednesday, January 11, 2012
The magazine that has sold millions of dollars in chemical sunscreen advertising in exchange for leading a public relations charge to restrict teenagers from tanning salons has now been targeted by thousands of angry consumers who want to ban its teen-inappropriate covers from grocery store racks.
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For the 8th Consecutive Year, Cosmedico is a Winner of the Industry Choice Award

Wednesday, January 4, 2012
WEYMOUTH, Mass., Jan. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — The ‘best of the best’ salon owners and the many loyal readers of Island Sun Times voted as their favorite Low Pressure Tanning Lamp >120W the Cosmedico Light, Inc. Cosmolux® VHR 9K90® 160W! Cosmedico’s innovative introduction of the 9K90® series of tanning lamps in 2003 was a direct result of listening to the salon owners and set a new tanning lamp standard for the 21st century!… continue reading

Anti-Aging Vitamin D: Better than any vaccine in preventing Flu

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

In the video below, Dr. Joe Prendergast, one of a growing number of experts who are recognizing the phenomenal health importance of vitamins, shares why, in many ways, vitamin D is more powerful than any vaccine you could take. video link http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xdLNMEXWTL8

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FDA Issues Red Light Letter

Wednesday, January 4, 2012
An indoor tanning sunbed re-lamped with red light lamps and marketed as a “red light therapy” unit needs to have proper U.S. Food and Drug Administration pre-market approval before being marketed for sale, the FDA said in a Dec. 21 letter to the Indoor Tanning Association.
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Dr Mercola on the Dr Oz Show

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

The Dr. Oz Show: Information I Couldn’t Share

Video Links Dr Oz –  tanning bed part of the interview:
http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/dr-joe-mercola-s-health-recommendations-pt-2 Here’s a video of Mercola expanding on the Dr. Oz interview: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/01/04/dr-mercola-on-the-dr-oz-show.aspx By Dr. Mercola
I was recently invited as a guest on The Dr.
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