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5 Feb

Getting Your Vitamin D

Vitamin D is essential for bone health, but that doesn’t mean you have to risk the effects of sun damage just to get your daily dose.  UV rays can cause premature aging of the skin and skin cancer, whereas dietary sources of Vitamin D don’t. Your body must have vitamin D to absorb calcium and […]

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16 Jan

To Vitamin D or not? Further Information

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Two leading experts in the field of vitamin D agreed to disagree yesterday here at the 2013 European Congress on Endocrinology during a lighthearted debate on the subject of whether or not everyone needs more vitamin D. But their arguments were backed up by some serious science, and they both concurred that there […]

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14 Jan

Are There Vitamin-D Health Benefits?

Low concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) are most likely an effect of health disorders and not a cause of illness, concludes a comprehensive review of observational studies and randomized clinical trials of vitamin-D status and health outcomes published online December 6 in Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. The new analysis, showed moderate to strong associations between lower concentrations […]

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