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http://www.besthealthmag.ca/blog/post/skip-indoor-tanning-beds Much as I would love to be bronzed rather than pale and freckled, I’ve always opted for self tanner rather than visit an indoor tanning salon. After all, as the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) points out, “some tanning beds can expose you to five times as much radiation as the sun, so using indoor tanning beds and lamps should be avoided.”… continue reading

By Jill Stein BALTIMORE (Reuters Health) – More than one third of mothers and more than half of their infants have vitamin D deficiency at the time of birth, investigators report. What’s more, prenatal vitamin D supplements do not fully protect against this deficiency, according to data released at Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting.… continue reading

SmartTan.com “If one regularly avoids sunlight exposure, research indicates a necessity to supplement with at least 5,000 units (IU) of vitamin D daily. To obtain this amount from milk one would need to consume 50 glasses. With a multivitamin more than 10 tablets would be necessary.… continue reading

MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT New research on asthma is giving tantalizing hints that it may be possible to diminish symptoms of the debilitating breathing disorder by using vitamin D. A study, based on children with asthma in Costa Rica, has found that low blood levels of vitamin D were associated with an increased severity of the disease, with those youngsters experiencing significantly more hospitalizations, increased use of inhaled steroids, and weakened immune function.… continue reading

MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT The first Canadian study to investigate vitamin D levels in toddlers has found that more than 80 per cent of the children tested didn’t have enough of the sunshine vitamin and nearly a third had such low amounts that doctors classified them as deficient.… continue reading