Cancer costs $895 billion annually. Comparatively, heart disease costs $753 billion. Nothing else comes close, with traffic accidents and diabetes each costing about $204 billion. “The price for one year of life increased to $139,100 in 2005 and $207,000 in 2013.” The biggest financial impact is in terms of loss of life and productivity, inContinue reading “Cancer costs $895 billion annually, Vit D from sun as anti-cancer”
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Climate Change , the facts
GREENHOUSE GASES such as carbon dioxide (CO2) absorb heat (infrared radiation) emitted from Earth’s surface. Increases in the atmospheric concentrations of these gases cause Earth to warm by trapping more of this heat. Human activities—especially the burning of fossil fuels since the start of the Industrial Revolution—have increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations by about 40%, withContinue reading “Climate Change , the facts”
Low Vitamin D Tied to Aging Problems
A new study has found that low vitamin D levels in people over 55 are associated with an inability to perform ordinary tasks of daily life. Dutch researchers studied two groups of older people — one of 725 men and women aged 55 to 65, and another of 1,237 older than 65 — to seeContinue reading “Low Vitamin D Tied to Aging Problems”