Heathy and safer living

What is going on?

I am beginning to wonder if anyone reads this at all! :)

I was reading today that 2000 IU of Vitamin D3 can help to prevent cancer. We all need Vitamin D for healthy bones. VitaminD assists with the absorption of calcium. It is tough to get this amount of Vitamin D since a primary source is sunlight and we don't want to be in the sun a lot due to the danger of skin cancer.

A friend's daughter was recently diagnosed with Celiac Sprue Disorder. It is going to be a life changing and lifelong change for them in how they eat. Imagine not eating wheat products. There is wheat in so many things that we are not aware of .

A new study that was released in Science News, detailed that lavender oil and tea tree oil may have some effect on the hormones that our body uses. Some pre-puberty boys have been found to have increase in breast size due to using these products in large quanities. Once they eliminated them from their lives, their bodies returned to "normal". The size of the study was small and more antecdotal than anything.

Here in Pittsburgh, the city's mayor has come down with a rare form of cancer---primary nervous system lymphoma. He has 4 tumors within his brain. They are treating it with megadoses of methotrexate. The size of the tumors have decreased with the first course of medication. It is so rare that ther are approximately 50 cases reported/yr.

posted by brenda @ 10:37 AM