The vitamin D miracle: Is it for real?

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The claims have been sensational. Martin Mittelstaedt checks up on

the research behind the hype.

 

March 8, 2008

Globe and Mail

 

" But the benefits of vitamin D are no longer restricted to cancer

prevention: Studies have linked a shortage of the compound to such

serious, chronic ailments as multiple sclerosis, diabetes, heart

disease, influenza and schizophrenia.

 

" Cedric Garland, now a professor of preventive medicine at the

University of California, San Diego, is so convinced of this broad

link that he says, 'I think vitamin D is introducing a golden age in

medicine.'

 

" And he's not alone. So compelling is the latest research that a

number of credible medical researchers and public-health advocates,

many of them in Canada, have started taking doses far above 200 to

600 international units - the daily intake recommended by Health

Canada, depending on age with an upper limit of 2,000 IU.

 

Excellent article! Four pages long at:

 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080308.wxvitamin0

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