Why is vitamin D important? GrassroosHealth summarized many different research papers into one chart in order to explain why vitamin D levels are critical to disease prevention: What? How do I read this? GrassrootsHealth...
In the beginning In early 2000, researchers from the Osteoporosis Research Center at Creighton University, Omaha, NE, decided there was enough observational research on calcium and vitamin D and cancer – but no randomized...
GrassrootsHealth is in the business of moving research into practice. After reading all the research on vitamin D and cancer, even if some of the papers received bad reviews, we conclude that yes –...
Review of Research Paper Sunlight: For Better or For Worse? A Review of Positive and Negative Effects of Sun Exposure Han van der Rhee et al. Cancer Research Frontiers May 2016 Read Paper Researchers...
Sunscreen – To Use or Not To Use, That is the Question As a health conscious individual or parent, all you hear from your doctor is – sunscreen, sunscreen, sunscreen! But is it that...
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...
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?...
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...
September 16, 2016 Did you know that fully one out of every seven men will get prostate cancer in their lifetime? (source: Prostate Cancer Foundation) This is much too high. I have a husband,...
July 27, 2016 We can no longer wait to implement vitamin D programs in all walks of medicine – pregnancy, pediatrics, adult physicals, and disease treatment. Our disease incidence prevention chart gives a view...