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People should have their vitamin D levels checked annually, just as they get a flu shot every year, a Canadian non-profit group official said. Joseph Levy, executive director of the The Vitamin D Society, said vitamin D has long been known as the body's catalyst for proper calcium absorption, but vitamin D also plays a role in the prevention of more than 30 forms of cancer as well as heart disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis and several other disorders. "What's clear -- but still...
Health Canada is warning Canadians, especially expectant mothers, not to use two vitamin C products sold under the brand names New Roots and Vitazan. Officials said New Roots Herbal Vitamin C8 and Vitazan Professional Vitamin C Advanced Ascorbate were improperly manufactured using vitamin A instead of vitamin C, posing a potential health risk. And the products might also contain excessively high doses of vitamin A. Symptoms of vitamin A overdose include headaches, fatigue, appetite loss,...
A high daily dose of a vitamin K supplement did not protect against age-related bone mineral density decline, Canadian researchers said. However, it may help with preventing fractures or cancers, study leader Angela Cheung said. In a randomized controlled trial, Cheung and colleagues at the University of Toronto had 440 postmenopausal women with osteopenia -- bone mineral density lower than normal -- to receive either 5 mg of vitamin K or a placebo daily for two years. Two hundred and...
PARKINSON'S disease could be linked to low levels of vitamin D, a study shows. Scientists in Atlanta, Georgia, found people with the nervous system disorder had lower levels of the vitamin than healthy individuals. It's recently been discovered Vitamin D plays an important part in the immune system. (c) 2008 Daily Record; Glasgow (UK). Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.
Vitamin D deficiency is common in patients with inflammatory bowel disease and chronic liver disease, U.S. researchers say. Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin investigated whether Vitamin D deficiency in patients with inflammatory bowel disease is associated with a lower quality of life or higher disease activity independent of other known risk factors and medication use. This study conducted by Dr. Alex Ulitsky and his colleagues analyzed Vitamin D levels of 504 inflammatory...
In studies of cancer cells and mice, vitamin C appears to substantially reduce the effectiveness of anti-cancer drugs, U.S. researchers said. Dr. Mark L. Heaney of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York said the same mechanism may affect patient outcomes, although this premise needs to be tested. Heaney and colleagues found that every chemotherapy drug tested did not work as well if cells were pretreated with vitamin C, as they did on untreated cancer cells. In the cell...
Recent reports of medical studies about vitamin D deficiency may be causing some people to take too much of the vitamin, U.S. researchers said. Dr. Boyd Lyles of U.S. Preventive Medicine, an organization specializing in disease prevention, said that although studies show that both men and women who have lower blood levels of vitamin D also have a corresponding higher mortality rate, more vitamin D isn't necessarily better. Other studies show significant toxicity in people who have...
Canadian scientists link low vitamin D levels to MS risk in kids OTTAWA, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Canadian researchers say they have found new links between low levels of vitamin D in children and an increased risk that they may develop multiple sclerosis. At an international meeting of MS specialists in Montreal on Friday, Dr. Brenda Banwell said that low levels of vitamin D in some children may explain why doctors are seeing more kids developing MS in Canada and other parts of the world....
By DAMIEN HENDERSON SCOTLAND'S poor weather, specifically its lack of sunlight, is to blame for a greater range of health problems than has previously been admitted by government officials, a report published yesterday claimed. Health writer Oliver Gillie called for an overhaul in public health policy to ensure that Scots received daily vitamin D supplements and maximised their exposure to sunlight. He found that, due to its latitude, Scotland receives 30-50per cent less UV light...
By Amy Donaldson Deseret News I woke up with a sore throat and a bad attitude last week. The sore throat was the first symptom, followed soon after by a runny nose and a lot of sneezing. And the raunchy mood resulted when I realized I was coming down with my second cold in less than a month. I do not have time to be sick! I went months without any kind of cold, and then to have two within weeks of each other, well, it was very discouraging. So I immediately began doubling my daily intake...
