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If you are feeling some depression due to the economic downturn and are experiencing the aches and pains of a shrinking portfolio, your answer may lie in taking a vacation to the tropics or at least increasing your intake of vitamin D.… continue reading

ParentCanada.com I had a thought-provoking conversation with Marc Sorenson, Ed.D this week. Dr. Sorenson is a fitness/health expert in Utah and he was in the GTA to give a talk and promote his book which focuses on vitamin D deficiency. So, what’s the big deal about vitamin D deficiency?… continue reading

‘Sun Scare’ article shows how anti-sun naysayers use twisted wording to distort actual research findings Friday, November 21st, 2008 Internet site www.CancerMonthly.com published an article Thursday misrepresenting research about indoor tanning — using clever wording to distort actual research findings. “The Cancer Monthly article uses convenient language distortion to make it appear that research says things that the data actually don’t say,” Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy said.… continue reading

WASHINGTON — Today keynote speaker Congresswoman Nita Lowey (NY-18) joined with experts from New York Presbyterian Hospital; the Skin Cancer Foundation; 2006 Miss Maryland, a skin cancer survivor; Fallene LTD, and Ciba Corporation to call on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to address the dramatic rise in skin cancer rates in the United States.… continue reading

If you tan in salons to avoid the harmful effects of the sun’s rays, you probably aren’t doing your skin any favors. People who use tanning beds likely face the same risk of deadly skin cancer as those who lay out in the sun, according to a report in Pigment Cell Melanoma Research.… continue reading