Barbara Leech began her career as a beat reporter for the small weekly newpaper, The Rockingham News, in southern NH. She later was named Editor of the paper and a year later took the helm of The Exeter News-Letter, a bi- weekly award winning community newspaper.

Since remarrying and the birth of her third and then fourth child, she works from home freelance writing.

My passion is ...

writing and drawing with charcoal.

I know too much about ...

the newspaper business and crime.

My parents always told me ...

that I would make a good wife someday...becoming a newspaper editor kind of took them off guard...women work?

My childhood ambition ...

was to to be a figure skater.

My favorite memory ...

the moment of birth for my son, my husband with tears streaming down.

Why I write ...

There are just things that I feel I must get out of me and put onto paper.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I have been reading a lot of spiritual books and I am listening to a book on CD: Entering the Castle by Caroline Myss

My first job ...

stuffing envelopes for a stock broker's big marketing push for new customers

My best moment ...

When I realized how much my boyfriend, who is now my husband, actually loved me. It took me a while.

My inspiration ...

is my family.

Health & Fitness > Vitamins & Dietary Supplements Causes of vitamin D deficiency

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Winter months are commonly know for bringing exposure to colds and flu, but research is indicating that lack of exposure to sunlight may be a far greater threat to our overall health. The American Academy of Pediatrics recently increased its recommended Vitamin D requirement for children (birth to 13 years old) from 200 IU (international units) per day to 400 IU per day. The current adult recommendation is at 400 IU but is under examination by researchers as well, with an increase in the recommended intake anticipated by medical professionals. But some doctors and dietitians say that these...

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