The most realistic approach to boosting the nation’s intake of vitamin D is for food manufacturers to increase the dose of vitamin D per serving, says a leading expert on the sunshine vitamin.
Barely a week goes by without a new study supporting the potential benefits of vitamin D, but the many questions remain unanswered regarding the sunshine vitamin.
A new diagnostic vitamin D assay to be released in Europe may help to detect early deficiency, and could help to provide more accurate data for dieticians and researchers.
The likelihood of having depression is significantly increased in people with deficient level of vitamin D, compared with people with adequate levels of the sunshine vitamin, says a new study.
Eating food rich in vitamin E may reduce the risk of developing dementia, while insufficient levels of vitamin D may increase the risk of cognitive decline, say two new studies.
Middle aged and elderly people with high blood levels of vitamin D may be at a 33 per cent lower risk of developing heart disease, says a new review from the UK.
Researchers from Utah presented fresh evidence this week linking vitamin D deficiency to heart disease at the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Scientific Conference in Orlando, Florida.
Low blood levels of vitamin D have again been linked to lower survival in the elderly – a study which strengthens calls to confirm if vitamin D supplements could offer protection.
This year’s Linus Pauling Institute Prize for Health Research went to Dr Michael Holick from the Boston University School of Medicine for his work to revolutionize the understanding of vitamin D and its role in disease prevention.
Children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are
at an increased risk of vitamin D deficiency and could benefit from
supplements to avoid the health problems associated with not
getting enough of the vitamin.
British kids of Asian origin are eight times more likely than their
white counterparts to be vitamin D deficient, says a new study that
is leading calls for vitamin D supplementation for this at-risk
group.
Higher intakes of vitamin D could reduce the risk of certain
cancers by as much as 50 per cent, suggests a new study, lending
weight to calls for increased supplement intake and food
fortification with the vitamin.
Almost half the mothers and a third of infants tested in a new
study were deficient in vitamin D, say Canadian researchers,
revealing potential risks to health.
People with persistent, non-specific musculoskeletal pain should be
screened regularly for vitamin D deficiency, report authors of the
leading study in this week's Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
Vitamin D deficiency is much more frequent among African American
children and adults than previously thought, according to
researchers speaking at a recent meeting.
A team of researchers from the US has discovered that levels of
vitamin D deficiency in women of childbearing age are higher among
African Americans than among white women of the same age, leading
to a higher risk of the deficiency...