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Preventing COVID-19 Infection: Actual Scientific Evidence Suggests Dietary Supplement May Reduce Your Risk

Filed Under: Disease

Preventing COVID-19 Infection: Actual Scientific Evidence Suggests Dietary Supplement May Reduce Your Risk
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Preventing Covid-19 Can A Supplement Really Help?:
Until a cure arrives, most of us are looking for anything we can do to stay healthy,

Because one of the scariest things a person can do is to be in the middle of a pandemic without a vaccine.

Especially given how easily the virus droplets can get to you.

So we’ve previously talked about how to prevent COVID-19 with masks & behavior,

And even social-activities that could aggravate the spread.

But other than behavioral-changes, is there anything else you can do? A Boston University team would say yes…

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By: Will  /    /    

No More “Florida Orange”! Scientists Discover What Might Be The Ultimate (+Healthiest) Sunless-Tanner

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease

No More “Florida Orange”! Scientists Discover What Might Be The Ultimate (+Healthiest) Sunless-Tanner
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Summer Is About To Get Even Better!:
So with the full-weight of summer approaching, we revisit a more human side of good-health: How people look in a bathing-suit.

Especially when they get just the right amount of color to highlight their features. -Bikinis don’t hurt either.

And the unfortunate side-effect is all the UV-damage that occurs while achieving that crispy KFC hue.

But if Massachusetts researchers have anything to say about it, that could all be a thing of the past…

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By: Will  /    /    

Pleated Jeans Gives Us 18 Very Painful-Looking Reminders To Wear Your Sunscreen This Summer

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Stupid Health Tricks

Pleated Jeans Gives Us 18 Very Painful-Looking Reminders To Wear Your Sunscreen This Summer
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You Don’t Want To Learn This Lesson The Hard Way:
Now remember to put your sunblock on, boys and girls!

And while you’re at it, go back & read the post on the EWG’s list of the best ones for you.

Here are a few of the 18 painful examples Pleated Jeans rounded up to remind you to do it.

YEOWCH!…

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Lather Up! Our Pals At The EWG Release Their Guide To The Healthiest Sunscreens, & Save Your Freakin’ Skin In The Process!

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease

Lather Up! Our Pals At The EWG Release Their Guide To The Healthiest Sunscreens, & Save Your Freakin’ Skin In The Process!
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First They Saved Your Health, Now Your Skin!:
You might remember our previous post on the EWG’s great work on produce safety and pesticides.

If you don’t, The Dirty Dozen with Garrick Dee Tan’s infographics is a good & worthwhile read.

Especially for the addition of The Clean 15, and The Hazardous 3.

Well just in-time for sunny weather, the EWG is at it again for Sunscreens. And their results are pretty surprising…

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By: Will  /    /    

Video: A Few Of The Odd Things Winter Does To Your Body

Filed Under: Disease, Video, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Video: A Few Of The Odd Things Winter Does To Your Body


DNews Talks Sunny-D!:
So in addition being just plain cold, we’ve probably all felt a little different in-general in the wintertime.

Well Discovery’s DNews dives into some of the possible causes & complications in this here video.

In general, most everything is written-down to the Lack of Sunlight.

That in-turn creates a lowering of Vitamin D and an increase of Melatonin in your body…

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By: Will  /    /    

Europeans Low On Vitamin D And Other Micronutrients

Filed Under: Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

Europeans Low On Vitamin D And Other Micronutrients
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Micronutrients, like all the thousands of little mineral compounds you get from fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds are probably a lot more important for health than they’re given credit for.

So, in one of the first studies, if not The First, to look at how much people are getting across a range of several countries, -at least of some more widely-known compounds, The Euros are beginning to flunk.

-Especially as they move a little closer in their diets to what we eat here…

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By: Will  /    /    

Does the Weather / Jetstream Affect MS Rates in Scotland?

Filed Under: Thinking Out Loud

Does the Weather / Jetstream Affect MS Rates in Scotland?
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Recently, I was reading that the small country of Scotland has the highest Per Capita Rate of Multiple Sclerosis in the world.

It got me thinking about some potential causes.

On Wikipedia, it said MS has some relation to the vitamins that one normally gets as a result of exposure to solar radiation.

-Could the high latitude be working in concert with Scotland’s position relative to the Jetstream and the Terrain…

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By: Will  /    /    

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