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By Jennifer Goldberg from Best Health http://www.besthealthmag.ca/get-healthy/prevention/why-vitamin-d-may-prevent-h1n1 Taking vitamin D supplements may help protect you from the H1N1 virus, a U.S.-based researcher says. “Vitamin D fights common seasonal influenza and H1N1 in several ways,” says William Grant, founder of the Sunlight, Nutrition And Health Research Center in California.… continue reading

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6902010.ece Ryan McLaughlin with his mum Kirsten who is suffering from MS Melanie Reid A major international summit on the links between multiple sclerosis and vitamin D deficiency, supported by the Scottish government, is to take place in Scotland early next year thanks to the efforts of a campaigning schoolboy.… continue reading

Headline Story from SmartTan.com Breast cancer is a disease so directly related to vitamin D deficiency that a woman’s risk of contracting the disease can be ‘virtually eradicated’ by elevating her vitamin D status to what vitamin D scientists consider to be natural blood levels.… continue reading

Cristina Díaz-Borda Share This article was published on Oct 1, 2009 in the Science section Stephanie Parish University of Toronto researchers have identified the role of climate change on ozone distribution and atmospheric circulation over the earth’s surface. According to Michaela Hegglin, a postdoctoral fellow and lead researcher on the project, and professor Theodore Shepherd from the department of physics at U of T, UV radiation will decrease in the northern high latitudes by about nine per cent by the year 2100 and increase over the tropics and southern high latitudes by roughly four per cent.… continue reading

Ontario health care professionals will hear firsthand from some of the world’s leading vitamin D experts about the current vitamin D deficiency crisis in North America at an international conference on the diagnosis and treatment of vitamin D deficiency in Toronto November 3.… continue reading