I was sent a review article on the benefits of Vitamin D. Amongst other things it lists the diseases that are implicated when people lack enough vitamin D:
cardiovascular disease
hypertension
type 2 diabetes
prevention of type 1 diabetes
osteoarthritis
multiple sclerosis
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One of the articles I picked up to review looks at whether the risk of having a heart attack and dying can be picked up. The researchers used information from previous studies to decide what and how to measure men’s risk of dying. Just follow through some of the logic and you will come to [...]

I was clearing my desk and found another paper on Vitamin D and cancer and I wanted to add some details about useful D levels.
A 2007 paper this time – a 4 year trial of healthy over-55 women in the US were randomised to take a placebo, or calcium alone or calcium and 1000 IU [...]

I wrote this back in March and the draft sat in the box waiting for me to check it – so a bit belated, but here it is.
I’m still interested in the kerfuffle about fat in the diet and whether it contributes to increased deaths and illness. I came across a study by Ravnskov out [...]

I was a bit bemused by Dr Roby Mitchell’s recommendation to his email list that we take 50,000 IU per day of vitamin D as part of the way to improve our immune systems. Well I don’t know if I missed an earlier qualification but several days down the track he clarified that saying that [...]