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How Sunshine has Helped Us Heal throughout History

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

How Sunshine has Helped Us Heal throughout History

Tuesday, October 8th, 2024
From GrassrootsHealth Knowing the history of how sunlight exposure has been utilized to cure disease and improve health is important for understanding why it is still so essential today Key Points
  • The “Diseases of Darkness” that are associated with vitamin D deficiency, such as rickets, and other negative health effects resulting from a lack of sun exposure still exist today, and yet are absolutely avoidable and unnecessary
  • Sunlight and artificial UV were the most effective treatments of these diseases of darkness until the 1950s with the invention of antibiotics
  • Below is a timeline list of sunshine discoveries made and the uses of sunlight for health and wellbeing throughout history
Major changes in the way we live, especially over the past century, have affected the amount of sunshine we are exposed to on a daily basis, which for most people, is minimal.
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Canada Carbon Rebate for Small Businesses: Payment Rates and Online Estimator

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Canada Carbon Rebate for Small Businesses: Payment Rates and Online Estimator

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) would like to highlight new information about the Canada Carbon Rebate for Small Businesses, a refundable tax credit designed to support small and medium-sized enterprises across Canada.
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Register for a lesson in Dark Bronzers from the New Sunshine team!

Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Register for a lesson in Dark Bronzers from the New Sunshine team!
 
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Josh Freed: This column may be good (or bad) for your health

Monday, October 7, 2024

Josh Freed: This column may be good (or bad) for your health

Opinion by Josh Freed, Special to Montreal Gazette
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Apparently vitamins like vitamin D don’t have the health benefits we think they do. But maybe scientists will change their mind on that after the next batch of research, Josh Freed writes.
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Rethinking sun exposure: Study finds possible health benefits

Monday, October 7, 2024

Rethinking sun exposure: Study finds possible health benefits

Opinion by William Culbert
For 40 years, Americans have been told that lying in the sun without skin protection from ultraviolet (UV) rays is a dangerous thing. After all, the incidence of melanoma − the most dangerous form of skin cancer − has been increasing globally.… continue reading

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