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Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Higher Risk of Lung Cancer, Decreased Pulmonary Function in Smokers March 17, 2013 - A series of recently released studies involving the respiratory/pulmonary function of people who smoke cigarettes relative to their respective individual levels of vitamin D appears to indicate a direct relationship between…
By: Katherine Mendel Henderson Maternity clothes are designed to make you more comfortable during pregnancy. They fit differently than your regular clothes so that you can still move comfortably and enjoy good coverage of your body. What feels good to one woman may not feel good to another.
Brain State Conditioning in neurodegenerative diSeaSeBy vijendra Singh and Lee gerdesNeurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) affect the lives of millions of people worldwide. Patients show a wide range of neurological and psychiatric problems, including cognitive deficit, memory loss, confusion,
Here's some good news for anyone looking to rev up their metabolism, the fire that burns calories. Scientists announced this week that they'd discovered a way to manipulate lipase, the enzyme that breaks down fat, tripling it's power. The secret is a molecular "switch" that turns the enzyme on and…
Fuse/Getty Images The patient, a powerfully built middle-aged restaurant worker, had awakened one morning with a tight pain in his shoulders that traveled down his right arm. At work, he could barely shrug his shoulders or turn his head. "My fingers were so weak," he recalled, "that I couldn't even…
By: Vitamin Pete A simple pap smear (easy for us guys to say) could begin to replace an extremely invasive procedure used in the detection of ovarian and endometrial cancers, scientists from Johns Hopkins have determined according to a study first reported on by Andrea K. Walker of the Baltimore…
According to a pair of new studies recently published in the Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences ¹, vitamin D intake appears to be an extremely important determining factor relative to a woman's propensity to develop Alzheimer's Disease with age.
Vijendra K. Singh and Lee Gerdes performed a study of four subjects who were exhibiting symptoms of major depressive disorder. The goal of the study was to overcome the clients' depression, alleviate anxiety, and achieve physical health and balance, among other things.
Doctors check your blood pressure, heart rate and reflexes — but some also may have good reasons to check your Facebook photos, say doctors from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. They recently used Facebook pictures to help figure out what caused a woman's stroke.
NEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co said its experimental Alzheimer's drug showed signs of slowing mental decline in patients with a mild form of the disease, even though it failed to meet the main goals of two large clinical trials, suggesting the treatment could be salvaged.
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This is a pretty remarkable article. It's not your average spun news story, as the author clearly did his or her due diligence in digging up two clinical trials and a clinical review and drawing information from each of the three in order to assemble an article more comprehensive in scope and nature than any yet published on the topic (in terms regular people can understand anyway).
On top of of the thorough research that went into this, the nature of the story itself is pretty remarkable, as medical and non-medical professionals alike had more-or-less assumed smoking was a sure-thing death sentence. That lung disease and even lung cancer can be prevented and/or the risk reduced through vitamin D supplementation is amazing news to me.
Now I've got to get some vitamin D supplements to my oldest son, who smokes even despite the fact that it makes his mother sad.
One final note: The story URL is a little bit weird, so make sure you don't spell the word cancer completely if typing it in manually. For whatever reason, the story URL cut off after the "e" in "cancer", with the full address reading as follows: http://vitamind3blog.com/2013/03/vitamin-d-lu...
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