Vital vitamins

WINTER woollies are all very well, but vitamins can help to keep colds and flu at bay.

For the immune system to do its job, it needs four big hitters: Vitamin B6, Vitamin C, Vitamin D and

Shellacking for UV lamps

PROFESSIONAL manicurists questioned scientists’ claims that ultraviolet lamps used to harden shellac nail lacquers are a skin cancer risk.

Doug Schoon, a chemist from the Nail Manufacturing Council, said the findings were “biased and unfair” as the researchers used high­powered UV lamps and exposed cultured skin cells 20 minutes a day for three consecutive days.

He added a customer typically puts a hand under a lamp for three minutes each session and most go only two or three times a month.

“Millions have regularly used these lamps for more than 20 years and the bulk of scientific evidence shows that UV nail lamps are safe, when used properly,” Schoon said.

Vitamin K.

As well as meat and blue fish, don’t forget potatoes and bananas as a Vitamin B6 source.

Vitamin C is present in fruit and greens, but it’s there in potatoes, too.

For Vitamin D take cod liver oil, eat sardines and calves’ liver while soaking up Spanish sun.

BANANAS: A great source of Vitamin B6.

And for Vitamin E, feast on avocado and reach for the olive oil.