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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

http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Nutrition/Vitamins/vitamin_d_can_save_half_million_babies_each_year_161020090557.html (foodconsumer.org) — Results of a new trial presented at an international research conference in Bruges suggest that vitamin D supplementation can reduce the risk of premature births and boost the health of newborn babies, the Times reported Oct 10. Vitamin D deficiency, which is common everywhere, has been linked in many previous studies to a variety of illnesses from heart disease, cancers, multiple sclerosis and many others.… continue reading

By Tom Thekan http://www.thescugogstandard.ca/sports/2009/October-09/oct15-09/where_is_the_truth-149.html As with most topics in life there are at least two sides to every story … and sometimes even more. Vitamin D is no exception. Vitamin D is on its way to becoming a controversial and hotly debated subject, ranking right up there with the Atkin’s Diet.… continue reading

Headline Story SmartTan.com Two cancer-watchdog web sites — www.CureToday.com and www.OralCancerNews.com — have published a story titled “The Vitamin D difference” that points out that sensible sun exposure is the only natural way to make natural vitamin D levels. “Plain old vitamin D might finally be ready for its day in the sun.… continue reading

By Brenda Goodman Researchers are urging people with arthritis who take biologic medications that block an inflammatory protein called tumor necrosis factor alpha, or TNF-alpha, need to check their skin regularly for signs of cancer. That advice comes after two new studies found higher rates of both non-melanoma and melanoma skin lesions in those who take these kinds of biologic medications compared to those who take traditional disease-modifying, anti-rheumatic drugs, or DMARDs.… continue reading