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he sunshine vitamin is back in the news this month, ® ® although to be fair Vitamin D is hardly ever out of the news these days – at least overseas. In New Zealand it’s taking a little longer for the news media to wake up to the significance of Vitamin D, but there are signs of life flickering anew. Earlier this month the Herald ran a piece from a medical doctor recommending a daily dose of 10 to 20 minutes sun a day direct on unprotected torso, in a bid to boost your Vitamin D levels. Readers of Investigate knowand we’ve pushing this linespeech recognition system just keeps Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 will is here, thebeen world’s best-selling for two years now, as study after study rolls in to show Vitamin Ţ Up to 15% more getting better. D is literally a “miracle drug”. accurate Dragon NaturallySpeaking is faster and more accurate ever, delivering up to 15% more accurate Over the summer, researchers at Bristol Universitythan confirmed Ţ Up to 50% faster born women with low Vitamin D levels are shorter, resultsthat thanbabies version 9.toYour transcribed words now appear on the screen in half the time it took in the and sicklier average than born tothe women Ţ Quick voice past. more With fragile new Dragon VoiceonShortcuts, youbabies can search Web for information, products, news and with high levels of the vitamin. more with a single voice command. formatting With studies showing up to a 77% reduction in cancer mortality Ţ New look and feel iconsreduction for the DragonBar are intuitive and easy to rates for people getting regular Updated vitamin D,graphical and a similar see. Quick in heart disease, these are statistics thatNew no other drugVoice on theFormatting market makes it easier to format, delete, Ţ Improved help can match. The breast cancer drugs so much about comewith a single command. andwe’ve copyheard words and passages system and tutorials nowhere even close to the kind of results vitamin D is achieving in Ţ Improved natural controlled medical trials. commands for But there’s a bigger point to this. New Zealand’s health budget is Firefox under massive strain. We’ve all heard how the country can’t afford to keep up with the Joneses on medical technology. Ţ More flexible Well, imagine how much more money there would be for state enrollment for of the art treatment if we could save the cost of 80% of cancer younger speakers and heart disease treatment? and users with Nor is it just those two issues. Vitamin D has been linked to certain speech curing depression, multiple sclerosis, a much lower rate of diabechallenges tes and obesity – all these diseases of modern society. By locking ourselves up in offices, and slapping sunscreen all Ţ Regional accent over instead of developing a good tan, we’re quietly killing oursupport selves. It’s the same ‘scared-of-the-world’ mentality that saw mothŢ One-click option to ers race to swab their children with antibacterial soap every time they touched a blade of grass. disable conflicting But in our rush to cover-up against the sun, we’ve apparently services created unhealthy kids: Ţ Better control of “A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart commands vs Association, shows that teens that don’t get enough vitamin D now dictation on the web could be headed for serious problems in their later years – including heart disease,” reported a US news service this month. Ţ Auto configuration “For the study, Dr. Jared P. Reis of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg for optimal School of Public Health and colleagues analyzed data on 3,577 performance based adolescents, 12 to 19 years old, who participated in the nationally on system profile representative National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) conducted from 2001-2004. The researchers used a Ţ Formatting and word biomarker of vitamin D to measure levels in blood. properties interface “On average, none of the teens were getting enough vitamin enhancements D, however those with the lowest levels were more than twice as Ţ Embedded data likely to have high blood pressure and high blood sugar compared collection tool to those with the highest levels. They were also four times more likely to have metabolic syndrome, a cluster of cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk factors including elevated waist circumference, high blood pressure, elevated triglycerides, low levels of HDL The Nuance suite of Dragon NaturallySpeaking products is available through your usual or ‘good’ cholesterol and high fasting glucose levels. ‘The thing computer software reseller. that surprised me more was how strong these associations were in Please contact sales@mistralsoftware.co.nz or your usual computer reseller for terms of vitamin D deficiency associated with almost four times further information. the risk of metabolic syndrome among adolescents,’ said Reis. ‘I Copyright © 2008 Nuance Communications. All rights reserved. Nuance, Dragon, and NaturallySpeaking are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. think it’s quite alarming’.”
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