Thursday, February 24, 2011

Higher vitamin D intake

Unless you work outdoors, 10% of us, you may want to take much more vitamin D.

"We found that daily intakes of vitamin D by adults in the range of 4000-8000 IU are needed to maintain blood levels of vitamin D metabolites in the range needed to reduce by about half the risk of several diseases - breast cancer, colon cancer, multiple sclerosis, and type 1 diabetes," said Cedric Garland, DrPH, professor of family and preventive medicine at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center. "I was surprised to find that the intakes required to maintain vitamin D status for disease prevention were so high – much higher than the minimal intake of vitamin D of 400 IU/day that was needed to defeat rickets in the 20th century.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Storms are not getting more extreme

Could global warming hysteria be hurting, even killing people, with mis-allocation of resources, spending money on useless carbon credits?

The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project is the latest attempt to find out, using super-computers to generate a dataset of global atmospheric circulation from 1871 to the present.

In other words, researchers have yet to find evidence of more-extreme weather patterns over the period, contrary to what the models predict.

Global-warming alarmists insist that economic activity is the problem, when the available evidence show it to be part of the solution. We may not be able to do anything about the weather, extreme or otherwise. But we can make sure we have the resources to deal with it when it comes.