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NEWS ABOUT: sunlight

sunlight stories: 11 news summaries

 Sunny Days Help You Think 

Cloudiness reduces cognitive agility in depressed people, researchers found

Aug 5, 09 4:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Does a cloudy day leave you groggy and unable to focus? If so, a study suggests you’re not alone: Cloudy days, regardless of season, can have an effect on cognitive function, MSNBC reports. Researchers cross-referencing the results of cognitive tests from 16,800 Americans with data on daily sunshine... More »

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weather • memory • depression • learning • brain • sun • sunlight • mild cognitive impairment

(Newser) - Too much time inside has left millions of American kids with shockingly low levels of Vitamin D, two new studies conclude. Roughly 9% of all 1- to 21-year-olds—7.6 million—were found to be Vitamin D deficient—putting them at higher risk for bone problems, heart disease, diabetes, and... More »

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children • sunlight • vitamin D • health study

(Newser) - Vitamin D is "one hot topic" among nutritionists, the Los Angeles Times reports, and it's about to get hotter. More than 2,000 studies on the so-called sunshine vitamin have been published this year alone, exploring its role in everything from reducing the risk of pancreatic cancer and diabetes... More »

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nutrition • vitamins • sunlight • vitamin D • Institute of Medicine

(Newser) - The dirty fumes of leaded gas may have curbed global warming for a few decades in the 20th century, the New Scientist reports. Researchers in Washington state have found that lead particles are key to creating ice crystals, which help form clouds—which aid global cooling by reflecting sunlight back... More »

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climate change • global warming • sunlight • particle physics • gasoline

 Parkinson's Linked 
 to Lack of Vitamin D 

Research finds Parkinson's patients deficient in sunshine vitamin

Oct 14, 08 5:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - New research has strongly linked Parkinson's disease to a lack of vitamin D in the body, the BBC reports. Studies found that 55% of elderly patients with Parkinson's had low levels of the vitamin, compared to 36% of healthy elderly people. Researchers are unsure whether the deficiency is a cause... More »

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nutrition • vitamins • Parkinson's disease • sunlight • vitamin D

Vitamin D's Grade: A+, or Incomplete? 

'Sunshine vitamin' can stave off disease, but may be risky too

Jul 4, 08 7:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Vitamin D, the "sunshine vitamin," has been getting plenty of good press lately, leading some to ask why more people aren't guzzling it to help stave off heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. But as the government looks to update its guidelines, many experts warn that bombarding people with... More »

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cancer • diabetes • heart disease • NIH • sunlight • osteoporosis • vitamin D • Sunshine vitamin • rickets

Vitamin D May Curb
Breast Cancer: Study

Spreading tumors, early death linked to low levels in women

May 16, 08 7:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to the spread of breast cancer tumors to other parts of the body, reports the Toronto Globe and Mail. Women diagnosed with breast cancer were twice as likely to see it spread and 73% more likely to die early if they had low levels... More »

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breast cancer • medical research • sunlight • vitamin D • ultraviolet light • Pamela Goodwin • Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center • Breast Cancer Research Foundation • American Society of Clinical Oncology • metastases

Sun May Lower Risk of Some Cancers

Exposure increases vitamin D, helps fight non-skin varieties

Jan 9, 08 7:48 PM CST
(Newser) - Getting a little bit more sun may actually reduce the risk of dying from some forms of cancer, a new study says. Brief exposure spurs the production of vitamin D in the body, which helps patients survive bouts with internal cancers—colon, lung, breast, and prostate. That benefit may outweigh... More »

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cancer • basketball • skin cancer • sunlight • vitamin D

Climate Change Can Even Muck Up Deepest Sea Creatures

Ocean life in the dark still relies on sunlight

Sep 10, 07 3:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists have discovered that even the bizarre creatures that live on chemical ooze in the blackest, deepest parts of the ocean aren't safe from environmental disasters. It turns out that larvae of tiny deep-sea shrimp live on microscopic plants that rely on sunlight and filter down from the surface. More »

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climate change • environment • ocean • sunlight • shrimp • larvae

Chavez Hands Nation New Time Zone

Setting clocks back
30 minutes will 'condition brains'

Aug 24, 07 4:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez plans to bump clocks in his nation back half an hour next month to add daylight to citizens' lives and create "a more fair distribution of the sunrise," Reuters reports. The change will particularly help poor children who wake up before dawn to go... More »

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Venezuela • sunlight • time zones • Greenwich Mean Time • Hugo Chávez

Heatwaves Double Over 100 Years

Number of 'extremely hot days' have tripled, Euro study shows

Aug 4, 07 4:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - The duration of heatwaves in Western Europe has doubled and the frequency of extremely hot days has nearly tripled since 1880, according to a study released yesterday. Periods of sweltering weather last an average of 3 days now compared to 1.5  in 1880, a shift that forebodes a higher... More »

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climate change • weather • Spain • global warming • study • heat • heatwave • Finland • scientists • radiation • sunlight • Western Europe

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