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After reading hundreds of books and articles on health I found it important to develop the ability to identify patterns. This makes things easier to understand and to explain. Oddly enough, writing that sentence just made me think of one of the patterns I identify on a daily basis.… continue reading

Daily Gleaner – Fredericton,New Brunswick,Canada As the cold weather approaches and our sun slips further away from us, it is time to start supplementing our diet with Vitamin D. With our northern latitude, we can no longer rely on the sun’s rays to reach us so that our skin can naturally produce this valuable nutrient.… continue reading

Low wintertime vitamin D levels in a sample of healthy young adults of diverse ancestry living in the Toronto area: Associations with vitamin D intake and skin pigmentation. Vitamin D plays a critical role in bone metabolism and many cellular and immunological processes.… continue reading

Only those sunscreens with titanium or zinc in them provide a broad range of protection from ultraviolet rays, according to the Environmental Working Group. The FDA has proposed rules that would identify the sunscreens that would fully protect you. Concerns were reported about the most popular sunblock chemical, oxybenzone, which is absorbed into the skin.… continue reading

MINA – Montreal,Quebec,Canada Here we have yet another study demonstrates the benefits of the sunshine vitamin, vitamin D. Read the findings of the study here. The international media has been full of reports on this, a few are linked to below: Lower vitamin D, higher risk of death — USA Today Lack of vitamin D linked to higher death risk: study — Yahoo Australia Low vitamin D shown to raise death risk: US study — Reuters / National Post D stands for ‘death-defying’ in the vitamin stakes — Daily Mail, UK But many people are confused.… continue reading