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This today in the NYT:

What Do You Lack? Probably Vitamin D

This is not a problem for people here although it is quite amazing how many people don't go outside much. Even in winter!

We have plenty of sun. I take supplements with my calcium which CNN reported this morning will give me 30% more heart attacks but not if I also take calcium from my diet. Go figure.

And I take regular vitamin pills. Don't lecture me about this. I know that I have a good diet and the pills are redundant but it makes me feel "better" if I take them meaning better than you.

Back to the Vitamin D.

Here is the big nugget in this story. It feeds an old hobby horse of mine.

The rising incidence of Type 1 diabetes may be due, in part, to the current practice of protecting the young from sun exposure. When newborn infants in Finland were given 2,000 international units a day, Type 1 diabetes fell by 88 percent, Dr. Holick said.

To say nothing of the chemicals that they are slathering on baby skin. I have always been against this. My kids didn't get it. Neither did I.

I will still not use sunblock except to protect the yellow color in my tattoo but I don't do that anymore either as the yellow sort of ran out on its own.

There are lots of nuggets in here. Read it for yourself.

Labels: health