Archive for May 2010
Vitamin D Remains in the News
I came across a new study that again shows how information about vitamin D can be misinterpreted. A group in Australia studied 7,000 women who were age 70 or older. Their hope was that they could help reduce the risk of fractures and falling in these women over time by supplementing their diets with extra…
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Why You Should Be Careful To Understand What The Media Is Reporting A very knowledgeable person wrote to me last week, saying “Did you know it’s now been shown that low levels of vitamin D cause short stature?” In other words, people who don’t have enough vitamin D don’t get as tall. She believed that…
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