Vitamin D Article by Shawn Nisbet Do You Need Vitamin D Supplementation? VITAMIN D “The Sunshine Vitamin” Vitamin D is so important that your body makes this hormone in the skin in the presence of sunlight but this can pose a problem for us living in the northern climates. Most of us know we need vitamin D for strong bones. Now it appears that vitamin D, or rather a lack…
In part two of her four-part series, Shawn Nisbet examines the basics of good nutrition and its essential contribution to our long-term well being. Nutrition is often defined as the process of eating the right kind of food so we can grow properly and be healthy. Such a simple definition for what has become a very complicated topic! Unfortunately, the old adage ‘you are what you eat’ is not exactly…