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Vitamin D in Your Skin
Monday, March 17, 2008
Researchers have found that the production of previtamin D3 in your skin varies depending on several factors, which include skin type, weather conditions, and sunscreen use. During the winter at altitudes above 35 degrees, there is minimal previtamin D3 production in the skin.… continue reading
Extra Vitamin D In Early Childhood Cuts Adult Diabetes Risk
Thursday, March 13, 2008
ScienceDaily — Vitamin D supplements in early childhood may ward off the development of type 1 diabetes in later life, reveals a research review published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disorder, in which insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas are destroyed by the body’s own immune system, starting in early infancy.… continue reading
Round-the-world News About Vitamin D
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Research reports keep rolling in on the importance of vitamin D in our diet-beyond its familiar role in helping us to build strong bones. Here are some of the findings: Periodontal disease, in a dental study of 6,700 people from 13 to 90, the gums of patients with higher blood levels of vitamin D were 20 percent less likely to bleed.… continue reading
Vitamin D Council
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Today’s Globe and Mail printed the best press article ever written about vitamin D,The vitamin D miracle: Is it for real? Many of you asked what you can do to help. One thing you can do is add a comment on the Globe and Mail’s website after you read the above article.… continue reading
The vitamin D miracle: Is it for real?
Monday, March 10, 2008
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
In the summer of 1974, brothers Frank and Cedric Garland had a heretical brainwave. The young epidemiologists were watching a presentation on death rates from cancer county by county across the United States. As they sat in a lecture hall at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore looking at the colour-coded cancer maps, they noticed a striking pattern, with the map for colon cancer the most pronounced.… continue reading
