In the News

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168587.php It’s no wonder that many people feel extra soreness and aches in their backs during winter months — they’re often not getting enough vitamin D. The body makes vitamin D from the sun’s ultraviolet rays, so it’s known as the sunshine vitamin.… continue reading

http://dailywd.womansday.com/blog/2009/10/daily-dose-dlightful-flu-fighter.html I’ve never been a big fan of supplements (I prefer to get my nutrients from food, thank you very much), but lately I’ve been hearing so much about the wonders of vitamin D that I’m seriously thinking about popping some daily.… continue reading

By Patrick Cox  http://wallstreetpit.com/11429-the-uber-nutrient-worth-hundreds-of-billions This ranks as one of the most important public health breakthroughs in decades. A trickle of solid peer-reviewed evidence that most people are severely vitamin D deficient has turned into a flood. If the new consensus is correct, and I believe it is, increasing your vitamin D level could, for most people, add years of healthy life.… continue reading

By GINA KOLATA The American Cancer Society, which has long been a staunch defender of most cancer screening, is now saying that the benefits of detecting many cancers, especially breast and prostate, have been overstated. It is quietly working on a message, to put on its Web site early next year, to emphasize that screening for breast and prostate cancer and certain other cancers can come with a real risk of overtreating many small cancers while missing cancers that are deadly.… continue reading

Hello Stephanie, I found this interesting…. While reading the same cosmo as you were talking about, I realized that the magazine actually contradicts itself… Page 136 – article called “why love is harder in winter” (just a few pages before the tanning salon article) “the seasons shortage of sunlight lowers our levels of the mood-regulating neurotransmitter serotonin, says couple therapist Barton Goldsmith… This makes you more cranky than in the summer when most people enjoy up to 15 hours of mood boosting sunlight a day” “being in the sun for a short amount of time is believed to raise both serotonin and and vitamin d levels….”… continue reading