A Confounding Mess In this week’s issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine (unfortunately you need a subscription to see the article) Dr. Andrew Gray MD, and Mark Bolland PhD write an interesting editorial called Vitamin D: A Place in the Sun. In it they discuss the current flood of claims for health benefits of vitamin ...
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Vitamin D remains in the news
Yet one more Tara Parker-Pope NY Times article. A good discussion of the pros and cons of Vitamin D. February 1, 2010, 4:42 pm The Miracle of Vitamin D: Sound Science, or Hype? By TARA PARKER-POPE Imagine a ...
Can higher vitamin D levels reduce risk of colon cancer?
The latest edition of the British Medical Journal reports a study showing a very statistically significant (p<0.001 for you statisticians) inverse correlation between levels of vitamin D and the risk of developing colorectal cancer. People were looked at in 5 subsets, highest to lowest vitamin D levels. Those in the highest 1/5 of vitamin D ...
Vitamin D – many of us need more
In the 1950’s vitamin D was added to most milk products and many bread products to address a nationwide concern of vitamin D associated rickets. At the time this seemed to prevent rickets, the concern at that time. Now we are seeing vitamin D deficiency problems again. This is a problem with multiple causes: -Less skin ...