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To help prevent sports injuries in children with vitamin D
Thursday, October 28, 2010
“It ‘s just a simple fracture, your baby will be fine in six weeks No gym until I clear ..” Sometimes it seems as if the slings and casts for broken bones standard edition for active children and young people. Counseling centers generally prevent injury and better health, using not only the implementation, safety equipment and, of course, knew better.
Wristband points to sunny days for children – Vitamin D Meter
Thursday, October 28, 2010
A WRISTBAND which is designed to tell children when they have received a healthy daily dose of sunshine has been developed in Scotland.
… continue readingSome 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.
