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I have written about the reported vitamin D deficiency and risk factors that many face. Have you ever wondered just what are the risk factors for vitamin D deficiency? The Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University published an article on their website on research on 7 risk factors for vitamin D deficiency. They [...] —Can They Help You Avoid a Stroke or Heart Attack? According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and The American Heart Association combined figures heart attacks and strokes account for more deaths than all cancers and injuries combined, and one out of every 2.4 deaths is attributable to cardiovascular disease. How is [...] According to a recent study on the relationship between low levels of vitamin D and increased muscle fat there could be a connection. An article in Science Daily reported on a study in the March 2010 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism where they found an astonishing 59 per cent of study subjects had [...] CNN reported a study that was done on pregnant women in their second trimester and beyond. In the study, 500 women who were at least 12 weeks pregnant took either 400, 2,000, or 4,000 IU of vitamin D per day. The women who took 4,000 IU were least likely to go into labor early, [...] Scientists are starting to see a connection between Vitamin D and Calcium uptake. In the 1950′s, a Swedish researcher, Arvid Carlsson, made the startling discovery that vitamin D can actually remove calcium from bones when it is needed by the body. In the same time period, Norweigian biochemist, R. Nicolaysen, conducted experiments and concluded [...] |
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