Race and Geography Should Inform Vitamin D Intake
September 20, 2011 (Washington, DC) — Vitamin D supplementation should not be one-size-fits-all, report researchers. Vitamin D recommendations should vary because risk for vitamin D deficiency varies widely. For example, African-American men who live …
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Vitamin D Supplementation Q3M Does Not Reduce Fall Rates
September 20, 2011 (San Diego, California) — Elderly women administered vitamin D supplementation in the form of oral cholecalciferol (D3), 150000 IU every 3 months, show significantly increased serum vitamin D levels, but the increases do not appear …
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Vitamin D and breast health
By VIRGINIA M. HERRMANN, MD, FACS Vitamin D has received a lot of attention lately. We know Vitamin D is important for health by promoting the absorption of calcium from the intestines. If Vitamin D levels are too low, or deficient, adequate calcium …
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Making Vitamin D
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Question by 
: Vitamins A, D, E, and K are which of the 4 choices?
Vitamins A, D, E, and K are:
a. fat soluble
b. more likely than other vitamins to be toxic in high concentrations
c. water soluble
d. fat soluble and more likely to be toxic
Best answer:
Answer by Mary
well that is somewhat a trick question, they are fat soluble so A is correct but they do also cause toxicity in high concentrations. So B is also correct. That to be mean that the teacher probably wants answer D, otherwise they just gave you way too many right choices!
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Vitamin D enjoys Shooting Ropes
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In a new study, researchers at the Moores Cancer Center and Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, UC San Diego used a complex computer prediction model to determine that intake of vitamin D3 and calcium would prevent 58000 new cases of breast cancer and 49000 new cases of colorectal cancer annually in the US and Canada. The researchers model also predicted that 75% of deaths from these cancers could be prevented with adequate intake of vitamin D3 and calcium. Dr. Cedric Garland, UCSD School of Medicine, lead researcher on the study discusses the implications of this finding and the proposed actions. Series: Vitamin D Deficiency – Treatment and Diagnosis [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 16454]
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