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Columnist Calls for Regular Sun

Monday, January 11, 2010
Headline Story from SmartTan.com A financial services columnist this week penned a strong essay urging everyone to question the ignorance of “the ‘consensus’ on sunlight exposure (which) has badly misled us towards vitamin D deficiencies.” Patrick Cox, a columnist for Agora Financial, wrote a comprehensive essay echoing Smart Tan’s contention that anti-sun advice would be completely flip-flopped if the phramaceutical companies behind the message could sell sunshine.… continue reading

Solar UV Geometric Conversion Factors: Horizontal Plane to Cylinder Model†

Sunday, January 10, 2010
Stanley J. Pope 1 and Dianne E. Godar*2 1 Sun Systems & Svc, Inc., Oak Park, MI 2 U.S. Food and Drug Admnistration, Silver Spring, MD *Corresponding author email: Dianne.Godar@fda.hhs.gov (Dianne E. Godar) The mention of commercial products, their sources or their use in connection with material reported herein is not to be construed as either an actual or an implied endorsement of such products by the Department of Health and Human Services.… continue reading

D is the new C: Sunshine vitamin is suddenly hot

Friday, January 8, 2010
Sales of once-neglected nutrient eclipse those of vitamin C for the first time, suppliers say Martin Mittelstaedt and Anna Mehler Paperny From Friday’s Globe and Mail Vitamin D used to be the Rodney Dangerfield of vitamins – often overlooked and certainly neglected by consumers.… continue reading

Pain relief through tanning

Friday, January 8, 2010
http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/health&id=7204269 Leslie Toldo More: Bio, E-mail, News Team UNDATED (WJRT) Believe it or not, tanning may be the best way for some people to fight chronic pain. HealthFirst reporter Leslie Toldo tells us about this controversial approach to treating fibromyalgia, and it’s being prescribed by a North Carolina dermatologist.… continue reading

Developing Good Financial Habits

Friday, January 8, 2010
http://www.lookingfit.com/articles/developing-good-financial-habits.html By: by Thomas Houck We’ve all been programmed to pursue the American Dream—a nice house, fast car and lavish vacations. Unfortunately, there’s a short circuit in the current generation’s thinking and many are living the new American Dream: Live the dream now; figure out how to pay for it later.… continue reading

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