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Vitamin scheme launched as rickets returns to Birmingham
Thursday, February 24, 2011
CHILDREN and pregnant women across Birmingham are being targeted in a free vitamin drive after the re-emergence of a Victorian poverty disease.
Cases of rickets in the city have surged in the past year – caused by a severe lack of Vitamin D and not getting enough exposure to sunlight.
So many coupon sites, so little time
Thursday, February 24, 2011
If Groupon isn’t as ubiquitous as, say, Facebook, it’s getting there. The website, which offers daily coupons to local restaurants, bars and other businesses, has 60 million members worldwide, about half of whom live in North America. Those controversial Super Bowl ads surely introduced it to some new customers, too.
… continue readingVitamin D conspiracy leads straight to Big Pharma
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
You’ve probably heard about the bad rap vitamin D has been getting lately. The argument goes something like this…the vitamin D crisis isn’t as bad as we thought. You probably don’t need as much of it as we thought. But it’s a free country.
… continue readingHigher Vitamin D Intake Needed to Reduce Cancer Risk
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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Higher Vitamin D Intake Needed to Reduce Cancer Risk
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha have reported that markedly higher intake of vitamin D is needed to reach blood levels that can prevent or markedly cut the incidence of breast cancer and several other major diseases than had been originally thought. … continue reading
AAD: Vitamin D May Protect Against Some Melanomas
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Medical Dermatology
NEW ORLEANS – Calcium and vitamin D supplementation has been associated with a 50% lower risk of melanoma in postmenopausal women at increased risk due to a history of nonmelanoma skin cancer.
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