Eradicate Breast Cancer
October 27, 2016 Age-adjusted breast cancer incidence rates have tripled in the USA since the mid-1930’s. Some of this increase may be due to detecting more cases by mammographic screening, but some is probably...
Vitamin D and Risk of Breast Cancer
October 12, 2016 At GrassrootsHealth, we consider October breast cancer PREVENTION month. What are you doing to prevent breast cancer – for yourself, your family, your friends, your community? How can we address PREVENTION?...
No Significant Change to Breast Cancer Incidence in 30 Years
October 5, 2016 Throughout this month we will present findings on vitamin D and breast cancer. Many of them show a substantially reduced risk when you move from a low level of vitamin D...
Lower risk of cancer with vitamin D
April 6, 2016 Today, April 6, 2016, is the release of a truly definitive paper about vitamin D and cancer. In 2007, I read a paper by Lappe et al. and, cried. It was...
The Importance of Regular Testing
February 24, 2016 The number one question I receive continues to be, “How much should I take?” The answer to that question also continues to be, “There is no magic amount. You have to...
Role of Food Fortification with D Deficiency
October 14, 2015 At a seminar in Toronto in 2009, we had a panel of Drs Whiting, Heaney, Vieth and others addressing the question “What do we DO about it worldwide?” To solve the...
Higher vitamin D levels may lower cancer risk
October 7, 2015 As you know, I am a breast cancer survivor (sometimes I say I’m a breast cancer treatment survivor). While the cancer is gone, the trauma of the treatments will have a...
It’s Breast Cancer Prevention Month
October 1, 2015 Breast cancer has taken the lives of some of the best people I have known, and derailed the lives of others. Of course, at the time, I knew nothing of vitamin...