Useful URLs on Ultraviolet Radiation and Vitamin D
Like-minded organizations
The Vitamin D Council
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/
SunlightD Organization
http://sunlightD.org/
Vitamin D
UC-Riverside, About vitamin D
http://vitaminD.ucr.edu/about.html
The Miracle of Vitamin D by Krispin Sullivan, CN
http://www.westonaprice.org/nutrition_guidelines/nutrition_vitaminD.html
Vitamin D deficiency -- An emerging health crisis?
http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/news/Nov2003/VitaminDDeficiency.html
Are we really dying for a tan? -- An Education and debate article on BMJ.com
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/short/319/7202/114
Sunlight Robbery: Health benefits of sunlight are denied by current public health policy in the UK
http://www.healthresearchforum.org.uk/reports/sunlightrobbery.pdf
 Solarmeter® Model 6.4 Vitamin D3 IU per Minute meter...... reads out weighted UVB effective irradiance converted to IU per Minute from either solar or artificial UVR sources. Reading is for default parameters of 10% body exposure (face, arms, hands), skin type 2, no tan or SPF, and age 20 young adult. A software utility program is included with the meter allowing adjustment of all these parameters to see the net effect on Vitamin D3 dosage. Price is $189.
http://www.solarmeter.com/model64.html
GrassrootsHealth is a nonprofit (501c3) organization whose aim is to get the disease prevention and health message of vitamin D out to the public.
http://www.grassrootshealth.org
Conferences
The Fourth World Conference on Nutritional Medicine
May 27-30, 2004
Hotel Nikko San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
http://www.nutritionconference.com/
Vitamin D conference
November 2004
http://vitaminD.ucr.edu/workshop.html
The Healing Sun. This website examines the positive influence of the sun's rays on human health.
http://www.thehealingsun.org
Ultraviolet radiation data
DNA-weighted UVB spectral exposure for July 1992 developed using data from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ery_uv/dna_exp.gif
U.S. Department of Agriculture Ultraviolet Monitoring and Research Program
http://uvb.nrel.colostate.edu/UVB/home_page.html
NOAA UV Index Page
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/uv_index/
Current UV Index Forecast
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/uv_index/uv_current.html
Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos
http://www.cptec.inpe.br/
Cancer data
Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
Weekly CancerDecisions.com and the Moss Reports
Expert Guidance for patients and their families on the best alternative, complimentary and cutting-edge conventional options for specific cancer types.
http://www.cancerdecisions.com
U.S. Atlas of Cancer Mortality
http://www3.cancer.gov/atlasplus/
Female Intelligence Agency examines: How to prevent breast cancer
http://www.007b.com/breast-cancer-prevention.php
Medical journal information
PubMed: 13 million journal paper titles, authors, and, in most cases, abstracts:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
Multiple sclerosis
Epidemiology and multiple sclerosis a personal review, John F Kurtzke MD
http://www.fedem.org/revista/n16/kurtzkeing.htm
Ashton Embry's organization in Canada
http://www.direct-ms.org
All About Multiple Sclerosis aims to provide accurate and comprehensive medical information about multiple sclerosis (MS) written in plain English by people living with the disease and its symptoms.
http://www.mult-sclerosis.org
MS and Vitamin D
http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/news/Nov2003/VitaminDDeficiency.html
The Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis is a national nonprofit dedicated to curing MS by determining its causes.
http://www.acceleratedcure.org/
News sources
Create s News Alert: (e.g., vitamin D, ultraviolet)
http://www.google.com/newsalerts?hl=en
Nutrition
Making Healthy Choices: Nutrition Counseling and Workshops offered by UCSF
http://cancer.ucsf.edu
UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center paper on Nutrition and Prostate Cancer
http://cancer.ucsf.edu
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - the source of dietary information by country
http://www.fao.org/
Living and Raw Foods - The largest community on the internet dedicated to educating the world about the power of the living and raw vegetarian food diet
http://www.living-foods.com
The Center for Food Safety (CFS) is a non-profit public interest and environmental advocacy membership organization established for the purpose of challenging harmful food production technologies and promoting sustainable alternatives.
http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org
ALLIANCE FOR BIO-INTEGRITY Preserving the Safety of Our Food, the Health of Our Environment, and the Harmony of Our Relationship with Nature
http://www.bio-integrity.org/
The Future of Food - An in-depth look into the controversey over genetiacally modified food.
http://www.thefutureoffood.com/
Monterrey Bay Aquarium: Seafood Watch Program - Choices for healthy oceans
http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp
Not Milk - links and articles concerning the dangers of dairy
http://www.notmilk.com/
The Key to Better Living - This booklet contains vitally important health information that is not readily available. It covers the “do’s,” the “don’ts,” and the “whys”, and is in a very short concise form.
http://www.sunarc.org/booklet.htm
Other health links
Mercola.com is the most-visited natural health site on the Web
http://www.mercola.com
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is a nonprofit organization that promotes preventive medicine, conducts clinical research, and encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research.
http://www.pcrm.org
The Cancer Project is a special project of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) advancing new approches to cancer prevention and survival through nutrition education and research
http://www.cancerproject.org
Acupuncture Clinic of Corvallis - Lots of good information including links to health information web sites.
http://www.wholehealthclinic.com/
Shirley's Wellness Cafe - The healing properties of sunlight
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/sunbath.htm
Alkalize for Health - Information about cancer and preventatives
http://www.alkalizeforhealth.net
Sunlight and Vitamin D specific
http://www.alkalizeforhealth.net/Lsunlight.htm
Orthomed.com - Information about the health benefits of Vitamin C
http://www.orthomed.com/
WHO mortality database. This database contains cancer mortality statistics by country or regions, extracted from the World Health Organisation (WHO) databank.
http://www-depdb.iarc.fr/who/menu.htm
Health Research Forum - The aim of Health Research Forum is to develop an up-to-date public health policy based on scientific evidence.
http://www.healthresearchforum.org.uk/index.html
007 Breast.com and the Female Intelligence Agency examine "Is there enough vitamin D in breast milk?"
http://www.007b.com/vitamin-d-breast-milk.php
Doctor Yourself.com - World's largest Health Homesteading website
http://www.doctoryourself.com
Beyond Health - Taking you beyond health as you know it!
http://www.beyondhealth.com/
Health-e-America Foundation - Ending America's Epidemic of Chronic Disease
http://www.healtheamerica.org/
Department of the Planet Earth - This site has several papers and essays on the role of aluminum as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and how to prevent Alzheimer's disease.
http://www.deptplanetearth.com/
Medical News Today. For the latest medical news and health news headlines today and every day.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/
Health and Fitness Calculator from Whole Fitness.com - Useful tools to measure body mass, ideal weight, blood pressure and more.
http://www.wholefitness.com/tools.html
The Dr. Rath Health Foundation - Responsibility for Health, Peace and Social Justice
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org
Elite HGH.com offers links to various vitamin sites
http://www.elitehgh.com
Polarity Healthcare - a site who's main purpose is to provide training and continuing education in energetic therapies and bodywork.
http://www.polarityhealthcare.com/home.html
Top Women's Health Resources - A toplist for Women's Health websites focusing on Alternative & Holistic medicine and health.
http://www.topsitelists.com/start/womens_health/
PMS & PMDD Information symptoms ~ causes ~ diagnoses ~ treatments ~ support
http://www.geocities.com/pmddandpms/
PMS & PMDD Message Boards - A message board for discussion, education, and support for PMS and PMDD sufferers
http://pmdd.proboards20.com/index.cgi
Naturally Empowered.com - A website designed to help empower you to create a healthier and happier life naturally
http://www.naturallyempowered.com/html/h_info/water.html
Health Effects of Tropical Smoke - by Forrest M. Mims III Published on Nature.com
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v390/n6657/full/390222a0_fs.html
Sattelite Ozone Monitoring Error - by Forrest M. Mims III Published on Nature.com
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v361/n6412/full/361505a0.html&filetype=PDF
Cumulus Clouds and UV-B
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v371/n6495/full/371291a0.html&filetype=PDF
Reader responses to the article "A Killer Tan" published in Prevention Magazine
http://forums.prevention.com/thread.jspa?threadID=53166
The Alzheimer’s Prevention Foundation International, “The Original and Leading Voice of Alzheimer’s Prevention,”
http://www.alzheimersprevention.org/
Good Health Without Drugs
http://www.nohypehealth.org/
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