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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

Vitamin D Deficiency – linked to significantly higher rates of most cancers, heart disease, autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, and even flu – affects 97 per cent of Canadians. Yet fewer than 3 per cent of Canadians say they know their vitamin D blood levels.… continue reading

By Sam Apple http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/11180df8-beaa-11de-b4ab-00144feab49a.html Sunlight 10,000 IU from 15-20 minutes of midday summer sun Oysters 270 International Units (IU) of vitamin D per half-dozen Dried shiitake mushrooms 172 IU per 100g Reinhold Vieth is frustrated. A thin, bald professor at the University of Toronto’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Patho-biology, Vieth is among the most knowledgeable people in the world on the subject of vitamin D.… continue reading

By Lindsey Tanner CHICAGO — At least one in five U.S. children aged 1 to 11 don’t get enough vitamin D and could be at risk for a variety of health problems including weak bones, the most recent national analysis suggests.… continue reading