"Getting her vitamin D the old fashioned way"
Sweeping cancer edict: take vitamin D daily
Recommendation comes on heels of U.S. study suggesting supplement slashes risk of disease by as much as 60 per cent
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
From Friday's Globe and Mail
June 8, 2007 at 12:00 AM EDT
TORONTO — The Canadian Cancer Society plans to announce Friday that all adults should start taking vitamin D, coinciding with the release of a groundbreaking U.S. study indicating the supplement cuts the risk of cancer by an astounding 60 per cent.the rest here
The move is believed to be the first time a major public-health organization has endorsed daily use of the sunshine vitamin as a cancer-prevention therapy for an entire population.
It follows a flurry of research suggesting the low-cost vitamin confers a high degree of protection against a wide variety of cancers. There are also striking study results suggesting that people who develop the disease often have low blood levels of vitamin D.
Although it is not known how many of the approximately 160,000 cancer cases diagnosed annually in Canada might be avoided by regular popping of a vitamin D pill, the cancer society said these findings are so compelling it felt it had to start urging people to act on them.
Can we all say malanoma, together.
ReplyDeleteSun exposure: Overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) light from the sun and other sources may increase one's chances of developing melanoma and other skin cancer
Before you begin popping vitamin D pills, you should be aware of the the nasty things that overdosing does to your heart.
ReplyDeleteYou don't need no stinkin' vitamin D.
ReplyDeleteFrom an article in our local newspaper yesterday, here's how to live to a 100, based on the testimony of the interviewed lady--
Get born on the Indian Reservation, grow up in a farm family. Eat good, don't drink, don't smoke, work all your life, have a good attitude and volunteer to help out. This lady took care, while working, of eight foster kids over the years, and now at 100, volunteers at the hospital.
It also seems to help not to get married, and have some good genes.
Quite a gal.