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UV Index

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UV Index

The sun is a powerful force of energy that is constantly releasing UV radiation, and if not minded can cause unexpected health concerns such as skin cancer, premature aging, cataracts, immune system suppression, and more. A UV index is a great tool to help people living anywhere around the country … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General News, Sun, Sunscreen, UVA, UVB, Vitamin D Tagged With: UV Index

When The Leaves are Falling Vitamin D Levels are Falling

By Dr. James Dowd

The Vitamin D Cure

Look for the New Revised Edition of The Vitamin D Cure in bookstores and online in June 2012! It has 15 new recipes and an all new 2 week menu along with revised chapters on the immune system, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. It will make a great Holiday gift for your loved ones. When The … [Read more...]

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How much sunshine should I get to make enough Vitamin D?

By Dr. James Dowd

The Vitamin D Cure is a breakthrough self-help book that takes the most recent scientific ideas and provides a practical program to promote the reader’s health. Here is some of what the Vitamin D Cure provides: • Explains how vitamin D works in health and how deficiency causes disease. • … [Read more...]

Filed Under: James E Dowd, Risk Quiz, Sun, Sunscreen, The Vitamin D Cure, UVA, UVB, Vitamin D Tagged With: bathing suit, epigenetics, grilled chicken, Microbiota, pistachios, Prevention, raspberries, Salad, shorts, skin cancer, sun exposure calculator, sunshine, swimsuit, t-shirt, UV Index

Falling Leaves Means Falling Vitamin D

By Dr. James Dowd

When the leaves change colors the availability of ultraviolet light to make vitamin D (UVB) disappears till next spring. Your vitamin D level then begins to fall along with all the leaves on the deciduous trees. Ten weeks after peak fall colors your vitamin D level is about half what it was at the … [Read more...]

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The Vitamin D Cure is Healthcare Reform

By Dr. James Dowd

The Vitamin D Cure

July 2009 Just a comment on health policy: There is no better time than now to write your congress persons about healthcare reform. The key word is healthcare, note; it does not say health insurance reform. Giving more money in the form of premiums to health insurance companies does not make … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exercise, James E Dowd, Nutrition, Sun, Sunscreen, The Vitamin D Cure, UVA, UVB, Vitamin D Tagged With: bathing suit, Carbohydrates, Cardiovascular, children, Diet, Fertility, growing pains, Headache, in vitro fertilization, infertility, Polycystic ovarian disease, Prevention, swimsuit, warts, weight loss

Sweet Summer Sun Heal Me

By Dr. James Dowd

The Vitamin D Cure

The Vitamin D Cure is now available in paperback! Now your healthy new lifestyle manual will cost you even less. It’s a great gift idea as well. Recipe of the Month Remember our recipes are courtesy of Chef Kelly (kellychez@gmail.com). If you have recipes you would like to share or convert to … [Read more...]

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The Vitamin D Season Begins with Spring Blossoms

By Dr. James Dowd

The Vitamin D Cure

Remember the type of suns rays that are necessary for vitamin D production (UVB) are only available between spring blossoms and fall colors. This season is long in the Southern United States but here in Michigan late April to May marks the beginning of the vitamin D season. Allergies come with … [Read more...]

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Winter Solstice, Christmas, and The New Year

By Dr. James Dowd

Vitamin D production requires ultraviolet B spectrum light (280-315 nm wavelength). Cholesterol from our diet and that produced in our liver is modified then transported to the skin where it is stereochemically altered by UVB light and heat, returned to the liver and further modified to 25-hydroxy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sun, Sunscreen, UVA, UVB, Vitamin D Tagged With: bathing suit, Christmas, Cold, Coldest Day, New Year, Shortest Day, swimsuit, Warm, Winter Solstice, Winter Vacation

Stand Up 2 Cancer – The Solution

By Dr. James Dowd

I briefly watched the three network program aired on September 5th entitled Stand Up 2 Cancer. Hollywood sure knows how to put on a fundraiser, and raise money fast. All the money they raised goes to the Entertainment Industry Foundation. The EIF then grants money for research and education. Let’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Nutrition, Sun, UVB, Vitamin D Tagged With: ABC, African American, All Cause Mortality, Breast Cancer, Cancer, CBS, Colon Cancer, Death, Entertainment Industry Foundation, NBC, Prevention, Prostate Cancer, Stand Up 2 Cancer

Bacteria: Friends or Foes?

By Dr. James Dowd

Much of medicine, health, and the food industry focus on bacteria as a source of disease. The general message the public gets is more bugs are more problems. Kill the bugs, solve the problem. Unfortunately this message fails to inform us that without bugs we would not exist. Bacteria and viruses are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Nutrition, UVA, UVB, Vitamin D Tagged With: Bacteria, Barker Theory, Beef, Carbohydrates, Corn, Gluten, Hygiene Hypothesis, Microbiota, Nature, Protein

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