Yet another study suggests that natural vitamin D levels may help slow the growth of prostate cancer tumors.

“In a new study, men with the highest levels of vitamin D in their blood were 57 percent less likely than men with the lowest levels to succumb to prostate cancer,” Fox News reported of the study conducted at the Harvard School of Public Health. “Prostate cancer is a very heterogeneous disease,” Harvard researcher Dr. Irene Shui, told Fox. “Some tumors progress quickly, spreading to other sites in the body and causing death, while others stay within the prostate for years and never affect a man’s health or life.”…

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Breast Cancer Natural Prevention Month is underway, and hundreds of Smart Tan members in the United States and Canada have joined a coalition of businesses supporting the Breast Cancer Natural Prevention Foundation’s major fundraising effort…

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Another study is showing that ‘the sunshine vitamin’ — already linked to risk reduction for heart disease, autoimmune disorders and most forms of cancer — may play a role in melanoma risk reduction. A Stanford University study has shown that vitamin D and calcium supplements — in women who were at-risk for melanoma — cut their melanoma risk in half…

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Tanning beds may be even more effective as a vitamin D producer than was previously believed. That’s the consensus of research published by Dr. Michael Holick’s group at Boston University. Holick’s group studied 15 people aged 20-53, tracking their vitamin D blood levels as they tanned in tanning equipment three times a week. How’d they do?…

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Another British doctor physician is speaking out publicly that the peril of overzealous sun avoidance has gone too far and needs to be countered…

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A Danish dermatology group reported this month that using the amount of sunscreen health officials recommend will completely block vitamin D production — adding to the volume of studies showing that SPF over-use will deprive people of natural vitamin D production…

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NBC News is picking up its press releases and Natural News – one of the internet’s leading proponents of common sense alternative medicine and healthy skepticism of organized medicine – has embraced the Breast Cancer Natural Prevention Foundation’s efforts to increase vitamin D awareness in the fight against breast cancer…

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A one-county study promoted by Mayo Clinic dermatologists in early April spawned headlines in the national news media suggesting that melanoma is increasing faster in women than it is in men — a false conclusion the study’s own data didn’t show, didn’t even measure and one that conflicts with data from the nation’s largest cancer registry…

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“Less than three-tenths of 1 percent who tanned frequently developed melanoma while less than two-tenths of 1 percent who didn’t tan developed melanoma.” — from the article, “Tanning Beds: What Do The Numbers Really Mean” by Dr. Ivan Oransky, editor of Reuters Health. Oransky pointed out that the data dermatologists say is evidence that tanning increases melanoma risk doesn’t really show much of an increase — one more case per thousand subjects…

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Sunlight deprivation among Sudanese refugee children re-located to less-sunny parts of southern Australia has led to skyrocketing incidence of rickets — further evidence that sunlight deprivation is the main reason rickets is returning in the population…

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