Cancer Bombshell "Must Read" Article

U.S. researchers will announce the first direct link between cancer prevention and the sunshine vitamin.

A four-year clinical trial involving 1,200 women found those taking the vitamin had about a 60-percent reduction in cancer incidence, compared with those who didn't take it, a drop so large it has twice the impact on cancer attributed to smoking.

The researchers say the medias big hide-from-sunlight advice has become a big part of the problem affecting the health of Americans.

Those practicing sun avoidance have traded the benefit of a reduced risk of skin cancer which is easy to detect and treat and seldom fatal for an increased risk of much more often fatal cancers, such as breast, prostate and colon, that here definitely appear linked to vitamin D shortages.

The sun advice has been misguided information "of just breathtaking proportions," said John Cannell, head of the Vitamin D Council, a non-profit, California-based organization. "Fifteen hundred Americans die every year from [skin cancers]. Fifteen hundred Americans die every day from the serious cancers." The Sun Research Turns Up. It Is Not Just Cancer

Vitamin D has also been linked to many other conditions, including multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, autoimmune diseases, influenza (the flu), and, of course, osteoporosis. Not too surprising given that vitamin D is actually a hormone (i.e., a chemical produced in one area of the body with effects on cells and tissues elsewhere in the body).
The results of the study the article points out, could potentially have far-reaching implications:

One of the researchers who made the discovery, professor of medicine Robert Heaney of Creighton University in Nebraska, says vitamin D deficiency is showing up in so many illnesses besides cancer that nearly all disease figures in Canada and the U.S. will need to be re-evaluated. "We don't really know what the status of chronic disease is in the North American population," he said, "until we normalize vitamin D status."

The primary source for vitamin D is the sun hitting exposed skin. Foods contain little vitamin D. People who spend most of their time indoors (e.g., office-workers, elderly), always wear sun block, and/or who live in northern latitudes where even mid-day sun is not strong enough to generate adequate vitamin D are at high risk for deficiency.

Best bets to ensure adequate vitamin D levels is to get your vitamin D Checked annually and supplement as necessary:

Darker skinned people may need twice as much time in the sun. The pigment in the skin acts as sun-screen.

The article states that Blacks may require up to ten times the usual sun exposure for adequate vitamin D.

Vitamin D supplements cost only pennies a day. Always take vitamin D supplements with a meal containing fat for best absorption.

Editors note: Those who have eliminated fat from their diet find they have shot themselves in the foot because eating fat is necessary for the body to absorb many elements such as when eating greens, vitamin D etc.

In the winter, or if you're not getting regular mid-day sun 10-15 minutes 3 to 4 days a week, increase daily supplementation to 2000 IU per day. Some research suggests the body may use as much as 3000 to 5000 IU per day or more.

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