The Health Weblog
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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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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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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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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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.
They were mostly low in Vitamin D, which is understandable given the high latitudes.
I shudder to think how we would fare on a similar survey.
Details at the…
Links:
• Source: ILSI-Mapping Low Intake of Micronutrients across Europe
• via: SD-Euros Low In D, Others
So when he wasn’t drinking, whoring, or writing the filthiest scatological poetry since the advent of the Nation of Germany, and exchanging it back and forth with -His Mother!-,
Mozart was busy getting his Russell-Brandian ass kicked,
by disease.
And doctors,…
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…
