Re: The role of Vit D and optimum health discussed on NPR

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What I meant about the people who had adequate Vit D were 60% less likely to get all cancers (of course prostate cancer was not included in this study since it involved women only).

Sorry about that.

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Conversation: The role of Vit D and optimum health discussed on NPR

Subject: [ ] The role of Vit D and optimum health discussed on NPR

Diane Rehm of NPR had an interesting show on NPR today. The discussion concerned Vit D (yet again!). The show can be heard on the NPR/Diane Rhem website and is aired again tonight(at least here on the U.S. East coast) at 10pm, I believe.

Among the highlights:

optimum Vit D levels protected against 60% of ALL cancers!

More studies need to be done as this one study involved a small number of Caucasian women only (no men) .

Up to 2000 IU of Vit D ddialy can be safely ingested.

The researchers all supplemented with at least a minumum of 400 IU daily.

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You can hear the full show here for free for the next

few days..

On the right hand side there are links for Windows

Mobile or Real Player

http://wamu.org/programs/dr/

Latest Research on Vitamin D

Doctors and researchers discuss the benefits and risks

of vitamin D and why some Americans may not be getting

enough of it.

Guests

Coates, Director, Office of Dietary Supplements,

National Institutes of Health

Joan McGowan, Director, Musculoskeletal Diseases

Branch and the Bone Diseases Program at the National

Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin

Diseases.

Joan Lappe, professor of nursing and medicine at the

Creighton University School of Medicine and

investigator with Creighton's Osteoporosis Research Center.