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Even a low-dose vitamin D pill cuts breast cancer risk by 24 percent
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
(NaturalNews) A recent research study on vitamin D has shown that even low-dose vitamin D supplementation plays a big role in preventing breast cancer. According to the study, which was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, women who take at least 400 international units (IU) of vitamin D a day lower their risk of developing breast cancer by 24 percent.… continue reading
Vitamin D not behind UVB’s psoriasis benefit
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Ultraviolet light therapy lessens the symptoms of psoriasis and simultaneously raises vitamin D levels, a new study shows. However, increased vitamin D is probably unrelated to light therapy’s benefits for psoriasis, the researchers say.… continue reading
Serum vitamin D levels and severe asthma exacerbations in the Childhood
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
BACKGROUND: Asthma exacerbations, most often caused by respiratory tract infections, are the leading causes of asthma morbidity and comprise a significant proportion of asthma-related costs. Vitamin D status might play a role in preventing asthma exacerbations.
… continue readingEnough of the studies already
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
The latest in a long line of doom-and-gloom studies got me remembering the old Joe Jackson song ‘Cancer.’
“Everything gives you cancer/ There’s no cure, there’s no answer/ Everything gives you cancer,” sings Jackson.
That was on Jackson’s Night and Day album, issued in 1982.
‘The Big C’ turns the attention of people towards skin cancer diagnoses
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
‘The Big C’ is the new comedy-drama show which turns the attention of people towards a very serious topic, i.e. skin cancer
‘The Big C’, the TV show that premiers on Monday, is a program about the life of a woman who discovers that she has skin cancer.… continue reading
