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Certainly Not The Last Word On Vitamin D

My senior year in college at UCLA, I had the priviledge of working in the Chemistry Laboratory of one of the few scientists who had won two Nobel Prizes, one on vitamin C.. I worked with Dr. Linus Pauling,...

2 comments    nutrition cancer illness
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How To Prevent Skin Cancer

The Risks Of Sunburn In Infancy It has been over twenty years since scientists first discovered the link between childhood sunburns and melanoma, the rarest but deadliest skin cancer. The first study was...

0 comments    skin cancer sun exposure
Good source of Vitamin D64

Vitamin D and Breast Cancer

During the summer months, instead of shunning the sun completely, it is advised that a balanced approach to ensure you get enough vitamin D. Produced in the skin by the action of the sun's UV rays, vitamin D...

2 comments    women cancer vitamins
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Sunscreens and Vitamin D - Part 2

When you wear a sunscreen on your uncovered skin, vitamin D3 production by your body is blocked. In fact, sunscreens reduce vitamin D production by as much as 97.5 to 99.9%. Interfering with your body's...

0 comments    protection skin cancer sunscreen
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Taking Care of Your Eyes Is an Investment

“Familiarity breeds contempt” is just a way of saying that we tend to take for granted the things that are vital to us. Family and friends that we care for, the car that takes us back and forth to work,...

0 comments    health eye care sun exposure
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We're All Going To Get Cancer and Die

Everyday there is a new flu epidemic sweeping the nation.  Everyday there are thousands of new breast, lung, and skin cancer cases diagnosed. These rates are double and sometimes triple what they were even...

10 comments    love life family
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Aging gracefully

Everyone will age by the age of 45 when your natural aging process begins. But aging does not mean the you cannot look much younger than your actual age. There are several secrets to stay longer naturally...

0 comments    health advice family
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heliotherapy and Air Bath

Heliotherapy: The healing power of the sunNowadays we have become very cautious about sun exposure, with goodreason, because we know much more about the depletion of the earth’sozone layer and the risks of...

0 comments    energy skin medicine
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How To Stay Young - Antioxidants, Calories, Not Smoking, Sun Protection

Staying young, looking younger, and even reversing aging to some degree is easier than one might think. There are very simple things you can do. I first became interested in the subject when i saw an episode...

0 comments    health diet beauty
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Why Are We Vitamin D Deficient?

In an earlier hub, I wrote that 50% of adults and 30% of children in the US are vitamin D deficient. Why is that? There are several reasons for this, some more obvious than others. They are: Avoiding...

0 comments    health diet nutrition
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