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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

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