Vitamin D ‘key to healthy brain’

Scientists have produced more evidence that vitamin D has an important role in keeping the brain in good Scientists have produced more evidence that vitamin D has an important role in keeping the brain in good working order in later life.working order in later life.
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One in seven US teens deficient in Vitamin D

“In children, vitamin D deficiency can interfere with bone mineralisation, leading to rickets. In adults, it is linked to cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, immune dysfunction and hypertension. “
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Sun – the Almighty

Burning and Smouldering
The endless light of our life
Handsome still with a sweet
Smile on his face
Appears at six when
Alarm of his rings
Keeps watching all the while
gets angry and all of
a sudden make us hot
At times opens his umbrella
Neither fair nor black
But like a ‘SUNLOWER’
bright yellow
Life a useless
Without he, without
his mischief
Life an endless story
Descending down at eve
At [...]

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Advent of the solar era

It is heartening to note that the Solar Era has arrived. Electricity can now be produced through solar photovoltaic cells at a cost lower than from fossil fuels because of a much awaited technology breakthrough recently achieved by the American company Nanosolar. The shift from fossil fuels can save our environment from further deterioration. Drawing [...]

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Some sun may guard against non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Recreational sun exposure could help prevent a type of blood cancer involving the lymph nodes called non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL), according to pooled data from 10 studies.
“These results…could be taken to suggest that if sun exposure does protect against NHL it is an intermittent pattern [...]

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More sun is healthy, despite skin cancer risk, study says

By Michael Kahn
LONDON (Reuters) – A little more sunshine might help you live longer, according to a study published on Monday suggesting that for some people health benefits from the sun outweigh the risk of skin cancer.
Sunlight spurs the body to produce vitamin D but fear of skin cancer is [...]

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Sun the Healer

The sun is the source of that radiant, splendid light that pervades the universe. It enlightens our consciousness and illumines our hearts; it sustains and nurtures all of creation. It is the one source of power that is eternal, pure and provides what is needed for the entire animate and inanimate world. The amount of [...]

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