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A new book by Dr. Michael Holick attacks the conventional wisdom that sun exposure can have detrimental and sometimes fatal consequences.  His book, entitled, The UV Advantage, offers a different approach to sun exposure and suggests that regular moderate exposure to UV light is the key to healthy living.  Dr. Holick, Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics at Boston University Medical Center, argues that a lack of UV radiation leads to the body’s depletion of Vitamin D.  This depletion can lead to diseases such as osteoporosis, hypertension, diabetes and cancer of the colon, prostate and breast.

 

What The Experts Say

 

". . . at last a book about health that looks at the whole person and not just one of our body systems in isolation . . ."

 

". . . Holick has solid scientific credentials and draws on a vast array of studies, his own as well as other's . . ."

 

". . . vitamin D deficiency is probably the most common deficiency in the developed nations, all the more important because it is generally unrecognized. We have three ways to deal with it: sun, supplements, or food fortification. Of the three, sun is the safest. In this book Michael Holick provides a much needed antidote for the scare tactics of the skin mafia . . ."

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Dr. Holick Comments on New Recommendations from the Australian and New Zealand

 

Dr. Holick agrees that moderate doses of ultraviolet exposure is essential for good health.  Approximately 10-15 minutes of uv light from the sun or a tanning bed on the arms, face and legs will help increase levels of vitamin D, thereby reducing one’s risk of such diseases such as osteoporosis, diabetes, hypertesnion and cancers of the colon, prostate and breast.  I agree that…

 

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In the News

  

  • New York Times: A Dermatologist Whose Not Afraid to Sit on the Beach   more

  • Good Morning America: Dr. Holick Gives the Low Down on the UV Advantage   more

  • Boston Globe: BU Advocate of Sunlight Draws Ire   more

 

Holick Studies

  • Tanning is associated with optimal vitamin D status (serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration) and higher bone mineral density1–3

  • Vitamin D and prostate cancer prevention and treatment Vitamin D: importance in the prevention of cancers, type 1 diabetes, heart disease, and osteoporosis1–5

  • Sunlight and vitamin D for bone health and prevention of autoimmune diseases, cancers, and cardiovascular disease1–4

  • Vitamin D Intake and the United States

Calendar of Events

2005

 

January 1, 2005:  Dr. Holick to speak on Common Ground.

 

March 13, 2005: Dr. Holick speaks at NIH regarding xyz.

 

March 13, 2005: Dr. Holick speaks at NIH regarding xyz.

 

March 13, 2005: Dr. Holick speaks at NIH regarding xyz.

 

March 13, 2005: Dr. Holick speaks at NIH regarding xyz.

 

March 13, 2005: Dr. Holick speaks at NIH regarding xyz.

 

March 13, 2005: Dr. Holick speaks at NIH regarding xyz.

 

March 13, 2005: Dr. Holick speaks at NIH regarding xyz.

 

March 13, 2005: Dr. Holick speaks at NIH regarding xyz.

 

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