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Daily health insurance with a multivitamin
Posted on Sun, 25 Apr 10

Daily health insurance with a multivitamin

A multivitamin formula can help ensure that your daily requirement of over 40 essential vitamins and minerals is met. Emerging evidence suggests that maintaining optimal daily micronutrient intake may help prevent chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dementia, macular degeneration and osteoporosis (1).

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Slow ageing & prevent cancer with a metabolic tune up
Posted on Tue, 16 Mar 10

Slow ageing & prevent cancer with a metabolic tune up

Each day your body requires more than 40 essential vitamins, minerals and other micronutrients. Low micronutrient intake is remarkably common and linked to subtle metabolic damage which may lead to the development of chronic diseases such as cancer over time (1). Optimizing your metabolism each day is a simple way to maximise your health and prevent disease.

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Breast cancer and vitamin D
Posted on Wed, 12 Aug 09

Breast cancer and vitamin D

Although health authorities are slow to accept the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and cancer development, there is now abundant evidence to show that low vitamin D levels play a causative role in the development of several common and deadly cancers including colon, ovarian and breast cancer [1].

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D for depression
Posted on Wed, 12 Aug 09

D for depression

Does winter get you down? Seasonal affective disorder, or depression during the winter months, is a common condition that is thought to be related to low levels of the sunlight vitamin, vitamin D. However with vitamin D deficiency affecting approximately 50% of people throughout the year D-pression may be more common than is realised.

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Vitamin D for flu protection
Posted on Tue, 11 Aug 09

Vitamin D for flu protection

As early as the 1940s it was found that when mice received low levels of vitamin D they were more susceptible to experimental swine flu infection than mice receiving adequate vitamin D [1]. Fast track to 2009 and scientists from the Public Health Agency of Canada are racing to discover whether vitamin D may be a way to fight the influenza epidemic, and with good reason [2]. There is mounting evidence to show that vitamin D may be a simple and safe solution to reducing influenza risk.

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Sun beds, not sunshine, cause cancer
Posted on Thu, 30 Jul 09

Sun beds, not sunshine, cause cancer

The World Health Organisation has raised the classification of tanning beds from a possible human carcinogen to a category 1 rating of carcinogenic to humans. In July 2009 a working group of 20 scientists from nine different countries met at the International Agency for Research on Cancer. In their report, published in Lancet Oncology, they reassessed types of radiation carcinogenic to humans and based on current evidence moved tanning beds into the highest risk category for causing cancer in humans [1].

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