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Vitamin D - (December 2012)

Finally, the media and the medical world is waking up to what doctors and scientists with knowledge in nutrition have been saying for over 40 years – our health suffers unnecessarily due to a lack of Vitamin D – the “Sunshine vitamin”.

It is so important to get enough sun and to eat a diet rich in Vitamin D as all the following diseases are associated with deficiency:

Diabetes
Osteoporosis
Arthritis
Coughs and colds
Heart disease
Increase risk of stroke
Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
Cancer
Various skin diseases
Rickets
Multiple sclerosis

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We may be exposed to over 700,000 chemicals a day in our homes.

Our clothes and furniture are impregnated with pesticides (when did any of us last see a mothball?) and fire retardants are added to household fabrics. Even the wood in our house is full of preservative. Our computers, when on and hot, are releasing volatile oxidative compounds, and when we heat our wonderfully well-insulated houses all of these chemicals vaporise and release into the draft-free, airless atmosphere.

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