Checking up on Charities

Here are 2 great websites for checking into how your charitable dollars are spent. One of my accounting gurus, who knows about these things, says that these are not perfect, as charities have ways of manipulating these numbers that can't be audited, but it's a start.

Charity Navigator - I like this one best. Has great info.

Better Business Bureau - worth a look.

New Evidence on Vitamin D's role in autoimmune diseases

This news article in Science Daily about a genomic study done at Oxford University and just published in Genome Research, suggests that Vitamin D deficiency is causal, not just a co-traveller with autoimmune diseases. All the more reason for those of us with autoimmune diseases to take it seriously.