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Status on Serum Markers of Bone Turnover in Healthy Adult Women Catherine A. Peterson, Mary E. Heffernan, Kay A. Sisk and Susan M. Ring Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia Missouri 65211 U.S.A. Abstract Background: Vitamin D is a key nutrient in bone health and the vitamin D status of individuals with regular exposure to solar or artifi cial ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation is generally superior to those with limited exposure.… continue reading

by Kimberley D. Mok, Montreal http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/nanoparticles-consumer-products-cause-cancer-study.php It’s a fact of life that nanoparticles are everywhere: from sunscreen to underwear to performance wear – they are an invisible part of everyday life. Nanotechnology has made some promising inroads, but could these undetectable bits of material be harmful to our health?… continue reading

From VitaminD3world.com This month the University of Toronto School of Medicine held a conference entitled Diagnosis and Treatment of Vitamin D Deficiency. It was the largest gathering of Vitamin D researchers in North America this year. Dr. Cedric Garland, who was the first to propose that Vitamin D deficiency explained the correlation between higher cancer rates at higher latitudes, was the highlight of the conference with his presentation entitled, “Breast Cancer as a Vitamin D Deficiency Disease.”… continue reading

Headline Story from SmartTan.com  One of the internet’s most popular health gurus is taking a hard swing at the purveyors of Sun Scare for causing vitamin D deficiency while defending the concept of regular UV exposure as a healthy activity. Dr.… continue reading

http://insciences.org/article.php?article_id=5999   New research has shown why people with the greatest number of moles are at increased risk of the most dangerous form of skin cancer. The study, led by Professors Julia Newton Bishop and Tim Bishop of the Melanoma Genetics Consortium (GenoMEL) at the University of Leeds, looked at more than 10,000 people, comparing those who have been diagnosed with melanoma to those who do not have the disease.… continue reading