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Winter health: Vitamin D and the seasonal flu
Thursday, December 3, 2009
By Dr. Sonja Koukel | Capital City Weekly
http://www.capweek.com/stories/120209/hea_531219320.shtml
Over the past few years, medical researchers have been exploring the role of vitamin D and its relationship to a healthy body. One of the first diseases contributed to low levels of vitamin D was rickets in children.… continue reading
Vitamin D Helps Diabetic Women
Thursday, December 3, 2009
http://www.india-server.com/news/vitamin-d-helps-diabetic-women-17256.html
A study says that women from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka with insulin resistance showed considerable improvement after taking vitamin D supplements. Von Hurst, nutrition lecturer at the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health at Albany, conducted the research for her doctoral thesis.… continue reading
Vitamin D prevents diabetes, improves insulin sensitivity, say multiple studies
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
by S. L. Baker
http://www.naturalnews.com/027626_vitamin_D_diabetes.html
(NaturalNews) With all the worries, debate and near hysteria over rising healthcare costs in the U.S., it might be time to face the fact we bring most illness on ourselves by eating junk diets, failing to exercise and avoiding sunshine.… continue reading
Finding nano—in sunscreen and other products
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
http://blogs.consumerreports.org/safety/2009/12/findnano-iphone-application-ipod-touch-wilson-center.html
There are iPhone applications that help you navigate the highways or locate the best coffee in town. But a new iPhone app helps you find things on a much smaller scale. As in a billion times smaller. Called findNano, the iPhone and iPod Touch application taps into the most extensive database of products known to be formulated with nanoengineered materials.… continue reading
Nutrition victory: Cancer doctors begin prescribing vitamin D as part of cancer therapy
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
NaturalNews.com by E. Huff
http://www.naturalnews.com/027637_cancer_vitamin_D.html
(NaturalNews) Resounding evidence proving the effectiveness of vitamin D in slowing the onset of breast, colon, and other cancers is convincing a growing body of doctors and physicians to utilize the sunshine vitamin in their arsenal of cancer treatment weapons.… continue reading