Carole Baggerly - Grass Roots Health

Dr. Bruce Hollis and Dr.Carol Wagner of the Medical University of South Carolina have just completed a study showing that it takes 6000 IU/day for lactating mothers to have 400 IU/day for their babies in their breast milk. In the pregnant group taking 4000 IU/day, there were

• 50% fewer premature births
• 30% reduction in pre-eclampsia and other 'core morbidities of pregnancy'

Dr. Hollis says, "I'm telling every pregnant mother I see to take 4000 IU/day and every nursing mother to take 6400 IU/day of vitamin D. Obstetricians must know their patients vitamin D levels."

D*action is making a special recruitment this first quarter for Pregnant and Lactating women AND their infants! We want you to know your vitamin D levels and, to protect your baby!

Join Today! Get your vitamin D level tested and help spread the word!

Scientists are calling for a standard vitamin D intake of 2000 IU/day and the achievement of a serum level of 40-60 ng/ml. Scientists' Call to Action.

GrassrootsHealth has launched a worldwide public health campaign to solve the vitamin D deficiency epidemic in a year through a focus on testing and education with all individuals spreading the word.

Everyone is invited to join in this campaign! Join D*action and test two times per year during a 5 year program to demonstrate the public health impact of this nutrient.

$60 and a quick health survey allows everyone to help sponsor the ‘open arm’ of this 5 year study. (The fee is $65 for a one-time sponsorship.) (There are many clinics participating and their fees may vary due to services offered by the clinic.)

• get a vitamin D blood spot test kit to be used at home (except in the state of New York)
• have the results sent directly to them
• take action to adjust their own levels to get to the desired ranges with whatever help is needed from their healthcare practitioners.

With only 100 people joining up today, and getting 2 friends to join in 2 weeks (and those 2 friends getting 2 more), by week 42, there could be 400,000,000 people who are vitamin D ‘replete’! (more than the United States population)
 

ANH calls for new paradigm in healthcare. - 
Alert to all nutritional practitioners: Are you doing enough to protect your future? The British Medical Journal’s offshoot publication, Clinical Evidence, tells us that only 13% of medical treatments have been demonstrated to be of benefit. Even leading figures in the pharmaceutical industry would seem to agree. 
  >> Alliance for Natural Health >> Organization Reports >>
http://www.naturalhealthsciencenews.org/ANH_calls_for_new_paradigm_in_healthcare

Rigged Trials: Drug Studies Favor The Manufacturer. - 
If you have often suspected that drug studies are rigged by the pharmaceutical manufacturer, you are right. "Drug studies skewed toward study sponsors," reported The Washington Post. 
  >> Orthomolecular Medicine News Service >> Opinions & Editorials >>
http://www.naturalhealthsciencenews.org/ANH_calls_for_new_paradigm_in_healthcare

Vitamin D As Radiation Protection. - 
Radiological health expert Daniel Hayes, Ph.D., of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene suggests that a form of vitamin D could be one of our body's main protections against damage from low levels of radiation. 
  >> Medical News Today >> News Stories >>
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/128693.php

Increases in imaging tests widespread: study. - 
Use of diagnostic imaging tests in the United States has increased across the board in recent years, with more patients getting the tests and more tests being ordered per patient, researchers said on Monday. 
  >> Reuters >> News Stories >>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081110/hl_nm/us_imaging_costs/print;_ylt=Auvu.g7skGHrwRf2tTumfYcR.3QA

Heartbeats may power future pacemakers. - 
Pacemakers and defibrillators of the future may generate an extra power boost from a surprising energy source: The heart itself. Using a microgenerator powered by heartbeats, a British team said on Monday their experiment produced nearly 17 percent of the electricity needed to run an artificial pacemaker. 
  >> Reuters >> News Stories >>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081110/hl_nm/us_heart_pacemaker/print;_ylt=Auvu.g7skGHrwRf2tTumfYcR.3QA

Low potassium linked to high blood pressure. - 
low potassium level in the urine correlated with high blood pressure, regardless of the level of salt (sodium) in the diet or cardiovascular risk factors. 
  >> Reuters >> News Stories >>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081110/hl_nm/us_low_potassium/print;_ylt=Auvu.g7skGHrwRf2tTumfYcR.3QA

Vitamins C, E do not cut heart attack, stroke risk: study. - 
Neither vitamin C nor vitamin E supplements cuts the risk of cardiovascular disease including heart attack and stroke in a U.S. study published on Sunday.
And a second study failed to show that taking low-dose aspirin helped prevent heart and artery disease among Japanese people with diabetes. 
  >> Reuters >> News Stories >>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081110/hl_nm/us_heart_vitamins/print;_ylt=Auvu.g7skGHrwRf2tTumfYcR.3QA

Heart Failure Hospitalizations Up Sharply. - 
Hospitalization rates for heart failure among older Americans have increased dramatically in the past three decades, an epidemic that represents a mounting burden on the health-care system. 
  >> Health Day News >> Scientific Studies >>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20081110/hl_hsn/heartfailurehospitalizationsupsharply;_ylt=AmWWoTzz62L00v3D79noV6m3j7AB

Active Young Women Need Calcium, Vitamin D. - 
Calcium and vitamin D supplements may do more than strengthen bones in older women. These vital nutrients may also help younger, active women reduce their risk of stress fractures. 
  >> Health Day News >> News Stories >>
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_71398.html