In the News
Harvard doctor in the dark about UV realities
Friday, September 4, 2009
Headline Story from SmartTan.com
The editor in chief of the Harvard Women’s Health Watch published false information about indoor tanning in the popular newsletter’s Sept. 2 edition. “The tanning industry makes misleading claims for the healthfulness of indoor tanning,” Dr. Celeste Robb-Nicholson wrote in her column.… continue reading
Education and schools 101: What vitamin helps prevent H1N1 flu?
Friday, September 4, 2009
Peace Studies Examiner Deborah Dupre
http://www.examiner.com/x-10438-Peace-Studies-Examiner~y2009m9d4-Education-and-schools-101-What-vitamin-helps-prevent-H1N1-flu
Vitamin D helps prevent H1N1 flu according to Dr. Joseph Mercola, overwhelming evidence showing that your vitamin D levels play a significant role in your likelihood of getting the flu. Vitamin D has been a hot research topic these past few years, and has been shown to have remarkable impact on nearly every single disease studied.… continue reading
Increased Vitamin D Levels May Predict Successful IVF Outcome
Friday, September 4, 2009
A novel finding has demonstrated that women with high levels of vitamin D in their serum and follicular fluid (FF) have higher chances of achieving clinical pregnancy after IVF-embryo transfer. The results of the prospective cohort study have been published recently in the online edition of the journal, Fertility and Sterility.… continue reading
CRD pushed to ban kids from tanning beds
Thursday, September 3, 2009
By Bill Cleverley, Times Colonist
Tanning beds could be off-limits to Capital Regional District youths by next summer. “Teenage years are a time of rapid growth,” Dr. Richard Stanwick, Vancouver Island’s medical health officer, told the CRD finance, corporate and protective services committee yesterday.… continue reading
Why Did People Become White?
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
By Heather Whipps, Special to LiveScience
http://www.livescience.com/culture/090109-why-white-people.html
A host of evolutionary pressures at work that contributed to the development of lighter skin, but for now, scientists aren’t sure exactly what produced white people. A host of evolutionary pressures at work that contributed to the development of lighter skin, but for now, scientists aren’t sure exactly what produced white people.… continue reading
