Health & Quality of Indoor Environments • Part 3 of a 6 Part Series Written by Kimberly A. Phipps-Nichol It’s New Year’s resolution time, a perfect time to set a goal of positively impacting your health by getting more access to daylight. Prior to the advent of electricity, mankind generally lived by the seasons. While oil and gas lamps have lit dark places for thousands of years, civilization ran by the sun’s clock. In modern times, electricity has given people the ability to … [Read more...]
Vitamin D – Sunshine & So Much More
From Mother Earth News magazine, by Linda B. White, MD What do the following conditions have in common: osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancer? Give up? Experts suspect that insufficient levels of vitamin D raise your risk of getting these diseases. Unfortunately, most of us probably are vitamin D deficient. A recent British study found that 87 percent of volunteers had low blood levels of the vitamin in winter and spring, and 61 percent had low levels in … [Read more...]
