Here we go again, on to the next single-vitamin bandwagon. This time, the flavour of the month is Vitamin D. Everyday new research touts the benefits of Vitamin D: for MS, Cancer, Osteoporosis, and cardiovascular disease. Personally, I have no doubts that Vitamin D can help with these conditions. However, by applying the ‘single-vitamin’ law we are simply mimicking the problematic one-magic-pill paradigm embedded deeply in Western society’s psyche.

 Today’s Globe printed the article “Brain Scans May Detect MS Before Symptoms Appear.”  Wow! Now that’s newsworthy. Well, ok, perhaps not. The use of an MRI, a scan, or any technology for that matter, to expose disease prior to symptom development, isn’t ‘new’.