In the News
Blood Pressure Can Be Controlled By Consuming Vitamin D Supplements
Friday, April 27, 2012
Hypertension (HTN) or high blood pressure, sometimes called arterial hypertension, is a chronic medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is elevated. There are many people who are affected by this disease. Now, a few researchers have come up with some scientific evidence claiming that Vitamin D deficiency is associated with high blood pressure.
Private Member’s Bill for ban under 18 – Ontario
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Date: Thursday Apr. 26, 2012 6:54 AM ET
TORONTO — As a child, Kate Neale always wore hats and high-SPF sunscreen to protect her ultra-fair skin from the rays of the sun. But at 16, wanting to emulate the bronze-skinned Hollywood stars with whom she’d become so enamoured, she started indoor tanning and quickly got hooked.… continue reading
NDP Press Release – Ban Teen Tanning in Ontario
Thursday, April 26, 2012
QUEEN’S PARK: Indoor tanning, and its negative health affects, are the target of a bill introduced today by France Gélinas, MPP from Nickel Belt and the NDP’s critic for Health and Long-Term Care.… continue reading
IPSOS Poll on teen tanning – paid for by the CCS
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012 IPSOS Poll
Toronto, ON – Despite warnings from the health community and beyond about the ill-effects of using indoor tanning beds—particularly for young people, more Ontario youth are using tanning beds than before, according to a new Ipsos Reid poll conducted on behalf of the Canadian Cancer Society.… continue reading
Vitamin D – most of us do not get enough
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
From Doctor Myhill
It is a fact of life in the current scientific world that publicity, hype and spin are more important in spreading information – and disinformation – about nutritional medicine than peer-reviewed scientific studies. The recent publicity over vitamin C is an obvious instance of this; a paper from the University of Pennsylvania Center for Cancer Pharmacology was the subject of a press release that presented it as new data that may have shown a damaging effect of vitamin C, even though any number of other studies have shown the opposite.… continue reading
It is a fact of life in the current scientific world that publicity, hype and spin are more important in spreading information – and disinformation – about nutritional medicine than peer-reviewed scientific studies. The recent publicity over vitamin C is an obvious instance of this; a paper from the University of Pennsylvania Center for Cancer Pharmacology was the subject of a press release that presented it as new data that may have shown a damaging effect of vitamin C, even though any number of other studies have shown the opposite.… continue reading
