Cholesterol and Vitamin D

[Guest guest]

I decided I couldn't afford to go to the Weston Price conference in London at

the end of March, so instead I have been reading books by the various speakers.

http://files.meetup.com/1463924/WAPF-LondonFlyerA4.pdf

I am currently reading a book called " The Obesity Epidemic " by nutritionist Zoe

Harcombe and found something very interesting about the relationship between

cholesterol and vitamin D (page107).

She says that in one statistical study it showed that the further a country was

away from the equator, the greater the incidence of coronary heart disease. The

close a country was to the equator, the lower the incidence of coronary heart

disease.

She relates this to both vitamin D and cholesterol. Vitamin D can be injested

and it can be made from skin cholesterol. Natural sunlight hitting cholesterol

in our skin cell membranes turns the cholesterol into vitamin D. With reduced

sunlight, in countries further away from the equator, there is reduced sunlight

to turn cholesterol into vitamin D. Without this exposure to sunlight, more

cholesterol remains in the body, and less vitamin D.

Vitamin D deficiency was linked to cardiovascular disease by a New Zealand

doctor, Dr Scragg, back in 1981.

Vitamin D is found exclusively in animal products and requires cholesterol for

its synthesis. If people follow the current advice to avoid natural animal

products because of their supposed saturated fat or cholesterol content, people

will reduce their intake of vitamin D and increase their risk of heart disease.

Miriam

[Guest guest]

Apparently this is not as clear cut as it says in the book because people are

better adapted to vitamin D synthesis in their own geographical locations than

was previously thought. For example, synthesis of vitamin D can start in late

February in Norway.

http://www.westonaprice.org/blogs/vitamin-d-problems-with-the-latitude-hypothesi\

s.html

So if you can brave the temperatures in early Spring and leave some skin

exposed, you will produce some vitamin D.

Miriam

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> I am currently reading a book called " The Obesity Epidemic " by nutritionist

Zoe Harcombe and found something very interesting about the relationship between

cholesterol and vitamin D (page107).

> She says that in one statistical study it showed that the further a country

was away from the equator, the greater the incidence of coronary heart disease.

The close a country was to the equator, the lower the incidence of coronary

heart disease.