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Catching some rays

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Heading off for a quick week in the sun? You might be thinking of prepping that sun-deprived body of yours before you head to the beach. Perhaps you’re thinking of taking up the local tanning salon on one of those introductory offers that keep arriving in the mail.… continue reading

Text-Messaging Reduces Skin Cancer Exposure

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
By Michael Dinan, TMCnet Editor We’ve reported on these pages before of the increasingly central role that text-messaging plays in modern communications. And whether people in the communications technology space are talking about how text-messaging and the mobile Web are emerging as core components of advertising or making driving and train conducting more dangerous, many analysts have called for global revenues to double, to $165 billion, by 2011.… continue reading

Call For Increase In Vitamin D

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
The newest star of the nutritional world is clearly vitamin D. Most people don’t get enough of this wonder nutrient and increase their risk of several diseases by being deficient. Recently, major medical groups have called for policy changes regarding vitamin D, including an increase in the current recommended daily allowance and new testing guidelines to look for deficiencies.… continue reading

The problem with sunscreens

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
The Sun, she is bothersome. We know this. Living in South Africa where it often shines and children love to play outside, parents have become obsessed with protecting their darlings from the harsh unhealthy rays of our greatest national asset. If not, skin cancer is inevitable we’ve been led to believe.… continue reading

Got vitamin D?

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
It’s daylight savings time, which means everyone nabs an extra hour of sunlight each day. But even so, you might not catch all the rays you need to help your body make vitamin D. An increasingly popular topic of health stories, vitamin D is actually a hormone the body makes when it absorbs ultraviolet beams of sunlight and it is pivotal to bone health, experts say.… continue reading

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