Health & Medicine: Vitamin D

Vitamin D
Vitamin D
Research Shows Vitamin D slashes risk of cancer by 77 percent!
  Most Americans and others are not taking enough Vitamin D, a fact that may put them at significant risk for developing cancer, according to a landmark study conducted by Creighton University School of Medicine. The four-year, randomized study followed 1,179 healthy, postmenopausal women from rural eastern Nebraska. Participants taking calcium, as well as a quantity of Vitamin D3 nearly three times the U.S. government's Recommended Daily Amount (RDA) for middle-age adults, showed a dramatic ...



Vitamin D Benefits
Vitamin D Benefits
Vitamin D - The Bone Vitamin
Vitamin D Benefits - Vitamin D plays an important role in the formation of bone tissue and in the maintenance of healthy bones. It'a easy to get enough vitamin D if you spend some time outdoors every day. But if you work in a job indoors, or mostly night shifts, you should make sure that your body get all the vitamin D benefits, possibly by taking a vitaimin D supplement.  


Vitamin D
Vitamin D
Vitamin D is mother nature's all natural substance, coming through in the healing properties of the sun's ultraviolet rays. When used intelligently, sunlight exposure provides most people with their entire vitamin D requirements. The skin alone, as the body's largest organ, is responsible for producing and providing our body with this important nutrient. According to Dr. Michael Holick author of The UV Advantage", and one of the world's most respected experts on vitamin D and the healing bene...


Vitamin D--The Sunshine Vitamin
Vitamin D--The Sunshine Vitamin
The Sunshine Vitamin
Vitamin D is known as the "sunshine vitamin" because the body manufactures the vitamin after being exposed to sunshine. It is both a vitamin and a hormone, Vitamin D, sometimes called Cholecalciferol, is the only vitamin that the body is capable of producing on its own. The only catch is that the body must be exposed to sunlight before it can produce this vitamin. It's not necessary to worship the sun to reap the vitamin-making benefits. An hour a week (Ten to 15 minutes of sunshine 3 times w...




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