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The GrassrootsHealth Vitamin D*action Project Review & Digest
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GrassrootsHealth is the founder of D*action, an international public health project whose goal is to solve the vitamin D deficiency epidemic. GrassrootsHealth and D*action work with over 30 scientists, institutions and individuals committed to educate, test, and study vitamin D levels worldwide.
Recent Posts
Reduce breast cancer risk with Vitamin D
Summary of Findings in Breast Cancer.Breast cancer patients with low levels of vitamin D and followed for up to eleven years had a 70% greater chance of dying and twice the rate of developing metastasis than did patients with high levels of vitamin D...
Vitamin D Dramatically Cuts Cancer Risk: Study
CTV.ca News StaffJun. 7 2007A landmark new study is raising the tantalizing spectre that a simple and cheap vitamin supplement may offer a highly effective way of preventing cancer.The research, published in the online edition of the American Journal...
MAYO CLINIC PROCEEDINGS: VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY UNIVERSAL AMONG MINORITES WITH CHRONIC PAIN
This month’s Mayo Clinic Proceedings have two important articles about vitamin D deficiency and chronic pain. Both the lead article and the lead editorial discuss the association of vitamin D deficiency and chronic pain. For reasons that are not cl...
Eradicate Breast Cancer With Vitamin D?
Breast cancer risk 'virtually eradicated' by elevated vitamin D levels, researchers suggest.Reprinted with permission from CNW GroupTORONTO, Nov. 4 /CNW/ - Breast cancer is a disease so directly related to vitamin D deficiency that a woman's risk of ...
Understanding Vitamin D Cholecalciferol
The high rate of natural production of vitamin D3 cholecalciferol (pronounced koh·luh·kal·sif·uh·rawl) in the skin is the single most important fact every person should know about vitamin D—a fact that has profound implications for the natural...
H1N1 Swine Flu Deadly in All Age Groups
When Swine Flu Is Bad, It's Really Bad, Data ConfirmBy Daniel J. DeNoonWebMD Health NewsReviewed by Louise Chang, MDNov. 3, 2009 - H1N1 swine flu isn't always severe, but when it's bad, it's really bad. Patients hospitalized with pandemic flu have an...

