In the News
Extra Vitamin D In Early Childhood Cuts Adult Diabetes Risk
Thursday, March 13, 2008
ScienceDaily — Vitamin D supplements in early childhood may ward off the development of type 1 diabetes in later life, reveals a research review published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disorder, in which insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas are destroyed by the body’s own immune system, starting in early infancy.… continue reading
Round-the-world News About Vitamin D
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Research reports keep rolling in on the importance of vitamin D in our diet-beyond its familiar role in helping us to build strong bones. Here are some of the findings: Periodontal disease, in a dental study of 6,700 people from 13 to 90, the gums of patients with higher blood levels of vitamin D were 20 percent less likely to bleed.… continue reading
Vitamin D Council
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Today’s Globe and Mail printed the best press article ever written about vitamin D,The vitamin D miracle: Is it for real? Many of you asked what you can do to help. One thing you can do is add a comment on the Globe and Mail’s website after you read the above article.… continue reading
The vitamin D miracle: Is it for real?
Monday, March 10, 2008
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
In the summer of 1974, brothers Frank and Cedric Garland had a heretical brainwave. The young epidemiologists were watching a presentation on death rates from cancer county by county across the United States. As they sat in a lecture hall at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore looking at the colour-coded cancer maps, they noticed a striking pattern, with the map for colon cancer the most pronounced.… continue reading
Round-the-World News About Vitamin D
Friday, March 7, 2008
Research reports keep rolling in on the importance of vitamin D in our diet-beyond its familiar role in helping us to build strong bones. Here are some of the findings: Periodontal disease, in a dental study of 6,700 people from 13 to 90, the gums of patients with higher blood levels of vitamin D were 20 percent less likely to bleed.… continue reading
