HEALTH
Vitamin D: A dose of sunshine goes a long wayBorn and raised in Haiti, Gerda Paulissaint, 46, came to Boston about 12 years ago and a funny thing happened. She started having all sorts of aches and pains. Walking up a flight of stairs was particularly painful. "It was as if my legs were talking back to me," she remembers. More » |
The man to see on vitamin DOf all Douglas Fairhurst's medical problems, the most bewildering were his weakening muscles. An avid bicyclist, Fairhurst, 74, could barely lift his leg much less pedal a bike. "I could hardly walk," he said. More » |
