Vitamin D Deficiency

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Widespread Vitamin D Deficiency Drains Billions of Dollars from Canadian Health

Care

System

 

 

The Vitamin D society, a Canadian non-profit group organized to increase

awareness of

the many health conditions strongly linked to vitamin D, has calculated the cost

of vitamin

D deficiency on the Canadian health care system to be no less than $9 billion

dollars

annually.

 

 

Vitamin D has long been known only for its role in bone health and proper

calcium

absorption. However, the explosion of research over the past few years has

revealed that

vitamin D plays a key role in cell growth regulation in the body, and may be

related to the

prevention of 22 forms of cancer as well as heart disease, multiple sclerosis,

osteoporosis,

and many other disorders.

 

Due to what is being considered a Canadian crisis and worldwide problem, the

Vitamin D

Society is recognizing the month of November as Vitamin D Awareness Month.

 

For the complete story and more information about the society and vitamin D

research, go

to the following link:

 

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2007/31/c2359.html