In the News
Lack of vitamin D costs Canada up to 37,000 lives and $14-billion a year: study
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
By Mary Vallis, National Post
Up to 37,000 lives could be saved in Canada each year if people increased their daily vitamin D intake, according to a new study.
And the country’s health care system would save an estimated $14.4-billion to boot, say leading researchers in the United States and Canada.… continue reading
And the country’s health care system would save an estimated $14.4-billion to boot, say leading researchers in the United States and Canada.… continue reading
Ramal to reintroduce tanning bed legislation
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
By JOHN MINER, The London Free Press
Warning tanning beds contribute to wrinkles and trigger deadly skin cancer, Ontario’s doctors are telling teens to stay away from tanning salons this spring.
The call from the Ontario Medical Association Monday comes as London MPP Khalil Ramal said he will take another run at passing legislation to regulate the tanning salon industry.… continue reading
Factor 50 sun block gave woman rickets
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
A health conscious nurse has been diagnosed with rickets after covering herself for years with factor 50 sun block.
Helen Smith, 38, suffered excruciating joint pain and extreme tiredness for almost a decade before doctors realised what was wrong with her.… continue reading
GrassrootsHealth Launches Worldwide Call to Action on Vitamin D
Monday, April 5, 2010
Scientific Conference on April 9 draws global medical experts to disseminate critical new research about “the Sunshine Vitamin”
SAN DIEGO, March 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — GrassrootsHealth (GRH), a public health research organization working to get Vitamin D research from science into practice, announces it will host a landmark seminar April 9 in La Jolla, California to unveil the latest significant research on Vitamin D.
… continue readingCheap holidays ‘skin cancer link’
Monday, April 5, 2010
The advent of cheap package holidays in the 1970s has led to a “generational shift” in the rates of deadly skin cancer, a charity has warned.
People now in their 60s and 70s are more than five times more likely to be diagnosed with malignant melanoma than their parents were, figures show.… continue reading
