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"Fish oil and sunshine are good sources of natural vitamin D, which benefits the development of good teeth and bones. Herbal sources of vitamin D are alfalfa and nettles. Vitamin D3 Adequate intake (AI): Pregnant or nursing: 200 IU per day Tolerable upper intake level (UL): Pregnant or nursing: 2,000 IU per day Environmental source: sunshine Food sources: fish Herbal sources: alfalfa, nettles Vitamin E. Vitamin E declines during pregnancy, creating deficiencies, and fetal vitamin E levels are usually low." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Even if there are many windows, the windows themselves block some of the 1,500 wavelengths present in sunshine from reaching our retinas and nourishing our brain and body. In most metropolitan areas, air pollution and haze are pervasive, blocking out the sunlight all year long. Many of us live in climates with winter weather that deprives us of essential sunlight. Fortunately, there is a simple solution: putting full-spectrum lights indoors helps you get benefits similar to those of sunshine." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Or in the 70 m sunshine. (Better yet—spend time with an ani- 1/1 mal in the sunshine!) Meditation is probably the most reliable and proven way to bring down stress hormones, but if that's not your cup of tea try some simple breathing exercises. (There's a reason they tell you to take a deep breath when you're boiling mad—deep breathing and stress are incompatable). If you want a really easy, structured way to reduce stress, try the Relaxation Response (see page 291). Whatever you choose, do something. Ultimately the health of your brain depends on it." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Alternatives to supplemental calcium include more calcium in the diet, more sunshine, keeping protein intake to the RDAs, keeping sodium levels below the upper intake levels, and regular weight-bearing exercise. Calcium Toxicity Blood levels of calcium that are abnormally high (hypercalcemia) are rare. Hypercalcemia has not been reported to result from food, only from certain supplement combinations. Hypercalcemia has been documented only with high levels of supplementation over long periods of time, usually combined with antacids and milk." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "The natural source of vitamin D is: (a) sunshine. (b) Spinach. (c) Apples. (d) Vitamin D supplements. 4. Vitamin D is metabolized and activated in: (a) The liver. (b) The kidneys. (c) The skin. (d) All of the above. 5. Blood calcium can come from: (a) The bones. (b) The intestines. (c) The kidneys. (d) All of the above. 6. The deficiency disease for vitamin D is: (a) Pellagra. (b) Rickets. (c) Scurvy. (d) Night blindness. 7. The tolerable upper intake level (UL) for vitamin D is: (a) 200 IU. (b) 400 IU. (c) 1000 IU. (d) 2000 IU. 8." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "CHAPTER 4 Vitamin D The sunshine Vitamin The main function of Vitamin D is regulating calcium and phosphorus to make bones strong. Vitamin D is an unusual vitamin. Vitamin D is necessary in the diet only for people who get too little sun to make their own vitamin D. For the billions of people who do get enough sun, it is not a vitamin because it is not needed in the diet. Vitamin D is also very hard to find in a natural diet as it occurs in only a few foods. Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"The basic teaching of author Johnny Lovewisdom is that fruits are the way for humans to get back to Paradise, or, as he puts it, "the Hyperborean homeland, the region of sunshine and everlasting spring, where the inhabitants lived on juicy fruits, and knew not what suffering and death were." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Nicoyans regularly take in the sunshine, which helps their bodies produce vitamin D for strong bones and healthy body function. Vitamin D deficiency is associated with a host of problems, such as osteoporosis and heart disease, but regular, "smart" sun exposure (about 15 minutes on the legs and arms) can help supplement your diet and make sure you're getting enough of this vital nutrient. Embrace a common history. Modern Nicoyans' roots to the indigenous Chorotega and their traditions have enabled them to remain relatively free of stress." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "Enjoy the sunshine. Vitamin D, produced by the body when it's exposed on a regular basis to sunlight, promotes stronger bones and healthier bodies. Spending time outside each day allows even senior Okinawans to have optimal vitamin D levels year-round. Stay active. Older Okinawans are active walkers and gardeners. The Okinawan household has very little furniture; residents take meals and relax sitting on tatami mats on the floor. The fact that old people get up and down off the floor several dozen times daily builds lower body strength and balance, which help protect against dangerous falls." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Three months later a thirty-eight-year-old woman named Linda Winston,* who lived at 378 Moselle—almost across the street from Devonne—came into the store and told Grant that she was having a hard time because she couldn't go out in the sunshine anymore. Her doctor had just diagnosed her with lupus. Sunlight made the disease flare. "Right then a warning bell went off in my head," says Grant. "Something just didn't sound right to me." Then, a few weeks later, Grant found out that one more woman living on Moselle Street was sick with the same autoimmune disease. The next week there were five." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"He opened the door of his lab into the brilliant Texas sunshine and the student mentioned the sun. Braud had been able to carry out his end of the experiment anywhere - the other side of the building or many miles away from his student in the sealed room - and get the same results.4 In 1971, when he was 29, Braud crossed paths with Edgar Mitchell, who had just returned from his Apollo 14 flight. Mitchell had decided to write a book about the nature of consciousness and at the time he was scouting around for any good research of this kind." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"As I was standing in the sunshine, it hit me that I was surrounded by millions of swirling fruits. Then one landed in my eyelash, hoping to take root. Being eaten is how many plants distribute themselves. To this end, they use color and sweetness the way certain European restaurants use unctuous pitchmen to lure in hapless tourists. The fruit sacrifices itself for the seed, hoping it will take hold somewhere far away. Genetically, plants want the same thing as any other species: survival and replication." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"As Copp points out, tanning beds are no substitute for a little real sunshine. once they were born. He found that 76 percent of the mothers were severely vitamin D deficient, and 81 percent of their infants were as Natural Prescription for Improved Physical Performance Vitamin D: 1,000-2,000 IU daily You can also increase your vitamin D levels by getting unprotected sun exposure for about 10-15 minutes three times a week. well." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "Give it some sunshine and, yup, some tender loving. Sound granola-ish? Maybe. But if that's one extreme approach to healing and the other end of the spectrum is heavy medication for symptoms, maybe we could look for something that's a little more of a compromise. Maybe we could begin to take advantage of the body's own miraculous ability to repair and heal by giving it natural substances that support it in that journey. And that, in a nutshell, is the purpose of this book. How Natural Cures Help You One of my friends, Joseph Brasco, M.D." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is immortal life. In some senses, of course, we are always in the present. Our past we know from memories, but those memories are experienced in the present, just as our future is something we imagine in the present. Whatever we may be thinking and doing, we are doing it now. Even when we are totally absorbed in thoughts about the past or the future, the thoughts themselves are occurring in the "now." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Something about the Costa Rican morning—the ever-present soundtrack of sabanero music, the faint aroma of tortillas roasting, or the radiant sunshine instantly makes me happy. Elizabeth had come to us by way of Luis. She had read an article in the Costa Rican newspapers about the Blue Zone project, and, having recently retired from the World Bank, she was looking to get involved with something, her new plan de vida. So Luis put her in touch with me, knowing our project was short on local expertise. When we met, I immediately recognized her as a godsend." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Take a walk in the sunshine (vitamin D) every day for at least thirty minutes. Don't drink beverages with added sugar. Specific diets may promote weight loss as well as good health. The Mediterranean diet is healthy and nutritious, lowers cholesterol, reduces heart attacks, lengthens your life, and tastes good.1 And you can (and should, if you are of legal drinking age and do not have an addiction problem) have a glass of wine with your meals as well. What more do you want? This diet is better than medications for the treatment of heart disease, obesity, and diabetes." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"A certain amount of sunshine is healthy, as it stimulates the body to produce vitamin D, and can counteract depressive disorders, but that amount is generally no more than fifteen minutes of sun exposure a day. And supplements also provide an effective antidote for vitamin D deficiency, so there's no goodhealth reason to purposefully expose yourself to the sun. "Deliberately setting out to get a suntan should not be seen as being 'cool,' nor 'attractive,' nor 'desirable,'" observes sunscreen expert Dr. Taylor. "It should be seen for what it really is: rather absurd and irresponsible." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Mishe-Nahma, King of Fishes, In his wrath he darted upward, Flashing leaped into the sunshine, Opened his great jaws and swallowed Both canoe and Hiawatha.56 The Eskimo of Bering Strait tell of the trickster-hero Raven, how, one day, as he sat drying his clothes on a beach, he observed a whale-cow swimming gravely close to shore. He called: "Next time you come up for air, dear, open your mouth and shut your eyes." Then he slipped quickly into his raven clothes, pulled on his raven mask, gathered his fire sticks under his arm, and flew out over the water. The whale came up." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"Calcium, vitamin D, sunshine exposure, dairy products and colon cancer risk (United States). Cancer Causes Control 11, 459^166. 181. Marcus, P. M., and Newcomb, P. A. (1998). The association of calcium and vitamin D, and colon and rectal cancer in Wisconsin women. Int. J. Epidemiol. 27, 788-793. 182. Pritchard, R. S., Baron, J. A., and Gerhardsson de Verdier, M. (1996). Dietary calcium, vitamin D, and the risk of colorectal cancer in Stockholm, Sweden. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 5, 897-900. 183. Kearney, J., Giovannucci, E., Rimm, E. B., et al. (1996)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Sugars in the seeds mainly feed the growing plant embryo until it can start manufacturing its own food from sunshine; those in the fruit attract animals, which carry the seeds off to greener pastures. As you've learned, fruit sugar, or fructose, is specially designed to make unwitting animals eat copious amounts. But what's in it for the animal? As it turns out, a lot! It's in your genes' interest for you to eat the sweetest food with the most calories, fust in case you have a different opinion, your genes have a powerful ally in the tip of your tongue, which houses your taste buds." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Moderate, but regular exposure of skin to sunshine. Supplements, if necessary, that supply enzymes, alkaline minerals, complete amino acids, and colon cleansing herbs. Antioxidants. Growth hormone precursors. Ionic minerals—a few drops in each glass of "purified" water, if you must use this kind of water. Juice of a half, or whole, lemon in a full glass of water, immediately upon rising in the morning. Green smoothies. One or two glasses of fresh juice—carrot, celery, spinach, beet, ginger, parsley, apple (or some other appropriate combination), every day. ?" - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "When possible, expose your skin to sunshine for brief periods each day. Vitamin D, manufactured by the action of sun on the skin, is needed for health. Avoid tanning lotions because they clog pores; instead, you can use hemp oil. It thoroughly penetrates the skin and contains a natural spf of 15. Get involved in exercise such as walking, swimming, skipping, using an electrically tuned mini-trampoline, aerobics, strength training, stretching, and so forth. Have times for breathing deeply, including diaphragm breathing, to increase oxygen absorption and reduce stress." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Healthy sources: sunshine. Supplementation with vitamin D3 may be needed. Food sources: fortified milk, salmon, sardines, and mackerel. Forms in the body: cholecalciferol, calcidiol, and calcitriol. Summary for Vitamin E Main functions: antioxidant protection of cell membranes and LDL. RDA as RRR-alpha-tocopherol: adolescents and adults, 22.5 IU (15 mg); children, 6IUto 16 IU (4-11 mg). Vitamin E is nontoxic at less than 66 times the RDA. Tolerable upper intake level of 1000 IU daily prevents excess bleeding. Deficiency: one-third of adults get too little to prevent cardiovascular disease." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Also required are adequate rest, exercise, fresh air, moderate exposure to sunshine, and skin brushing instead of using soaps and ointments. The body produces healthy skin when its requirements are being met. Yeast Overgrowth (Candida) Yeast is normally present in the colon along with hundreds of other organisms. In a healthy body, it is kept under control by enzymes and hydrochloric acid in the digestive system, and by friendly bacteria in the bowel." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Smiling people are drinking coffee, wondering aloud whether we'll be getting any liquid sunshine, and discussing rare fruits. I overhear a passionate debate over the merits of the black sapote, a fruit that one attendee describes as tasting like chocolate pudding. His detractors compare it to axel grease, cow patties and wet turds. Another topic is an upcoming group trip to Asia to be led by Chris Rollins, the director of Homestead's Fruit and Spice Park. I ask Richard Wilson, owner of Excalibur Nurseries, what motivates his fruit excursions. " - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"You can get all the vitamin D you need by taking a walk in the sunshine, especially in winter, since sunlight stimulates natural formation of vitamin D. However, if you want to take vitamin D there is no risk. VITAMIN E Vitamin E was shown in the laboratory to have "antioxidant" effects that should be good for a number of things from heart disease to dementia. But trials for vitamin E have not shown that it prevents heart disease or cancer." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Kretchmer, N., and sunshine, P. (1967). Intestinal disaccha-ridase deficiency in the sea lion. Gastroenterology 53, 123-129. 8. Zeccha, L., Mesonero, J. E., Stutz, A., Poiree, J.-C, Giudi-celli, J., Cursio, R., Gloor, S. M., and Semenza, G. (1998). Intestinal lactase-phlorizin hydrolase (LPH): The two catalytic sites; the role of the pancreas in pro-LPH maturation. FEBS Lett. 435, 225-228. 9. Montgomery, R. K., Buller, H., Rings, E. H. H. M., and Grand, R. J. (1991). Lactose intolerance and the genetic regulation of intestinal lactase phlorizin hydrolase. FASEB J. 5, 2824-2832. 10. Rossi, M." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"I hope everybody enjoyed the cruise last night and the bright sunshine yesterday," began Dr. Steven C. Schachter, a professor of neurology at Harvard and a paid Parke-Davis consultant, as he introduced the first speaker at a three-day corporate retreat at Jupiter Beach, Florida. "Someone asked me if Neurontin was good for a sunburn . . ." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

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