Vitamin D is required by the human body for proper functioning of numerous systems, to maintain health of both mind and body. After several decades of drumming the message to avoid overexposure to the sun because of the damage ultraviolet rays can do to the skin, including melanomas, clinicians are beginning to offer more balanced advice for sun exposure. Dr. Michael Holick, author of “The UV Advantage“, advocates daily sunlight exposure to avoid numerous diseases caused by a deficiency of vitamin D, the “sunshine vitamin” that is actually a hormone. Holick recommends daily sunshine and advocates wider use of proper exposure to the sun, in an effort to counter a pandemic of vitamin D deficiency-linked disorders and diseases that is now prevalent among North Americans. Here is a brief interview and his recommendations.
America’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is required by law to create new, stronger graphical image and text warnings for all tobacco product packaging.
Check out this BridgeURL, which affords on-the-fly web page creation and lists URLs either on a single page or as a slideshow. Below is a Scribd-embedded PDF slideshow of the proposed graphical text and image warnings.
In January of 2011, the FDA, acting as agent of the health of the American people, chose 10 harsh graphical warnings to motivate people to stop using tobacco, in one of the USA’s most extensive and rapid harm reduction public health campaigns.
Here are the nine images chosen for use on tobacco product packaging, beginning September 2011.
Vitamin D is required by the human body for proper functioning of numerous systems, to maintain health of both mind and body. After several decades of drumming the message to avoid overexposure to the sun because of the damage ultraviolet rays can do to the skin, including melanomas, clinicians are beginning to offer more balanced advice for sun exposure. Dr. Michael Holick, author of “The UV Advantage“, advocates daily sunlight exposure to avoid numerous diseases caused by a deficiency of vitamin D, the “sunshine vitamin” that is actually a hormone. Holick recommends daily sunshine and advocates wider use of proper exposure to the sun, in an effort to counter a pandemic of vitamin D deficiency-linked disorders and diseases that is now prevalent among North Americans. Here is a brief interview and his recommendations.
