If you have vitamin D deficiency in the years before menopause, you may suffer three times the increased risk of developing high blood pressure later on.

A new study, reported on at the American Heart Association, found that vitamin D deficiency among premenopausal women led to systolic hypertension 15 years later.
Vitamin D is also important for bone health. It can enter the body through the skin by means of exposure to ultraviolet B rays in sunlight. Dietary vitamin D is ingested.
Vitamin D is found in many fish like salmon, tuna and mackerel. Vitamin D is also found in the yolk of …read more

Benjamin Franklin once wrote to the French physician Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, “I rise early almost every morning and sit in my chamber, without any clothes whatever, half an hour or an hour, according to season, either reading or writing.” Why? Franklin believed that daily baths of fresh air were good for one’s health. He must have known what he was doing because the old guy lived to the ripe old age of 84.
I’m calling it sage advice. Truman is still recovering from step throat and he has a bad case of cabin fever. He just left his cocoon of blankets and …read more

As the summer winds down, many areas still are quite warm and temperatures can really shoot up in the afternoons. Labor Day tends to be a day filled with cook outs and outdoor fun, but basic summer safety precautions still apply.
One of the biggest Labor Day safety concerns involves pets. As you celebrate with family and friends, be sure that any pets that come along have a shady area to hang out in and get plenty of water. All dogs can become dehydrated, but black dogs really can suffer from heat exhaustion after a short time outside on sunny, hot …read more

Doctors and researchers have been noticing a decline in vitamin D levels in children for a while now but the problem is getting worse. With the increasingly sedentary and inside-the-home lifestyle of many American children, and the high use of sun block for those who do go outside, many just aren’t getting sufficient levels of vitamin D from the best source, the sun.
Although we know it’s important to protect our skin from the sun to reduce the risk of skin cancer, as with everything, moderation and common sense needs to take hold. Unless their skin is very fragile, five to …read more

Is there a connection between chronic migraines and lack of vitamin D? Considering all the news the vitamin has been getting lately, it wouldn’t be a surprise.
Here’s a Medscape article that discusses this: Vitamin D Deficiency Common in Patients With Chronic Migraine.
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