After many clashes over countless years, conventional medicine may finally be on the verge of acknowledging the true value of vitamin D and how it can help you reduce our cancer risks.
The evidence: An American study scheduled for a June release that compared the health of some 1,200 female patients, some of whom took a vitamin D supplement while others didn't. The number of patients who slashed their risk of cancer by taking a vitamin D supplement -- 60 percent -- was so amazing, some believed it to be a typographical error.
Moreover, this discovery may force conventional medicine to re-evaluate its vitamin D recommendations, considering a deficiency in the sunshine vitamin figures into many diseases, in addition to cancer. That led one researcher to point out, "We don't really know what the status of chronic disease is in the North American population, until we normalize vitamin D status."
There is a relationship between latitude, sun exposure and mortality rates associated with cancer, of particular importance to folks living in Canada and the Northern United States, hence all the interest paid to this critical health issue in a Toronto-based newspaper.
The best and safest way to get the right amount of vitamin D is through exposing your body to the right and safe amount of sunshine. Should you need to take a supplement or cod liver oil to get the vitamin D you need, however, please have the vitamin D levels in your blood checked often to avoid overdosing.
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