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Some cancer industry groups finally admit that advice to avoid the sun may be causing vitamin D deficiencies
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
(NaturalNews) A major British cancer organization is preparing a new position statement on sun exposure that may acknowledge vitamin D deficiency as an effect of sun avoidance.
… continue readingVitamin D sales soar as studies link a deficiency to a host of conditions
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Amy McDonald, 34 weeks into her second pregnancy with gestational diabetes, was in for a routine checkup in Bala Cynwyd: blood pressure (fine), fetal heartbeat (loud), review of home blood-sugar monitoring (time-consuming).
A lab test for Vitamin D had come back low on a previous visit, and McDonald was now taking supplements.
… continue readingReport: Derms Misbrand Sunscreen
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Many dermatologists who sell chemical sunscreen products in their own offices are improperly, and perhaps illegally, counseling patients that sunscreen prevents skin cancer — an advertising claim that the U.S. government does not allow sunscreen retailers to make, a report in the San Francisco Post’s on-line issue alleges.
How Much Sunscreen Is Needed During Vitamin D Winter?
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
How Much Sunscreen Is Needed During Vitamin D Winter?
Ontario considers curbing vitamin D testing
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
The much-hyped benefits of vitamin D have become so tantalizing that doctors in Ontario last year ordered nearly three-quarters of a million of the blood tests that determine a patient’s level of the sunshine vitamin.
But the growing popularity has become a major issue.
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