The Institute of Medicine (IOM), a health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, has just released its long-awaited vitamin D supplementation recommendations. To the disappointment of the world’s leading vitamin D scientists, those recommendations …
Almost 16 years ago Roger Holmes and his wife had an inkling to be part of the tanning community. Holmes had worked in the convenience store industry, but wanted to be part of the emerging business of …
When I’m driving in the car with my preschooler, he points out every traffic light. At each intersection, he reminds me that “Red means stop and green means go.” I don’t really mind having a back seat …
“The problem is that vitamin D is not really a vitamin, it’s a hormone. If your thyroid hormone level was low, you’d gain 20, 30, or more pounds in weight, your blood pressure would skyrocket, you’d lose your hair, become …
The Telegraph is reporting that players from the Manchester United soccer team are using cutting-edge technology to create more effective training programs. . One of those cutting edge technologies is ‘vitamin D beds.’ The beds, which are similar to sunbeds, …
The London (Ontario) Free Press this weekend reported to its readers that suntanning is an addictive behavior like smoking or drinking and repeated many other misstatements regarding research about indoor tanning. Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy writes the following …
On January 31 a U.S. District judge ruled the new health care law unconstitutional. Now, three senators have introduced a bill to postpone implementation of the law until further litigation is settled, according to the Kansas City Business Journal.
One of the world’s top supermodels has stirred up a storm in the cosmetic dermatology and pharmaceutical world by publicly calling sunscreen ‘poison’ and saying that she does not use it. “I cannot put this poison on my skin,” Brazilian …
“The problem is that vitamin D is not really a vitamin, it’s a hormone. If your thyroid hormone level was low, you’d gain 20, 30, or more pounds in weight, your blood pressure would skyrocket, you’d lose your hair, become …
