Vitamin D Deficiency Associated with High Incidence Cancer Mortality
According to many surveys Vitamin D deficiency rises as a global health problem in many countries and its consequences affect men and women worldwide. If human body has not sufficient Vitamin D, it cannot absorb calcium, thus the most common consequence induced by a lack of Vitamin D is osteoporosis. Normal levels of Vitamin D have been found to prevent malignant tumours of prostate, colon, breasts and ovaries, while low levels of Vitamin D have Read More...
Osteoporosis Caused by Vitamin D Deficiency?
Do you believe that lack of calcium is the most common cause of osteoporosis? Vitamin D deficiency may be even more important; a study from Amsterdam shows that 64 percent of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis lack vitamin D. A woman’s bones are strongest when she is 20; you lose bone continuously over your lifetime until at 90, virtually all women have osteoporosis. Only recently have doctors become aware of this high rate of vitamin D de Read More...
Vitamin C Deficiency
Vitamin C is instrumental in the formation of a protein which gives structure to bones, cartilage muscle and blood vessels. It also aids in the absorption if iron. Scientific researches have shown that there are no known advantages in consuming excessive amounts of Vitamin C.
Some of the more common signs of mild Vitamin C Deficiency include weakness, lassitude, swollen gums, nosebleeds and scurvy. Possible reasons which can result in this defic Read More...
Vitamin D deficiency in geriatric patients ( Deutsches Aerzteblatt International ) The great majority of geriatric patients in a German rehabilitation hospital were found to have vitamin D deficiency. Stefan Schilling presents his study results in this week's issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International. Read More...
Vitamin D deficiency may cause infertility Vienna, Feb 3 : Austrian scientists have found vitamin D's deficiency, long held as a risk factor for diseases like diabetes, may cause infertility among men and women. Read More...
Poor pregnant women missing out on free vitamin D, health officials claim Senior government health advisers say takeup of vitamin supplements under NHS Healthy Start scheme is low GPs, midwives and health service officials have been told to ensure pregnant women and those with young children in low-income families know of their right to free vitamin D supplements. Takeup of vitamins under the NHS's Healthy Start scheme is low, according to Sally Davies, the UK ... Read More...
Vitamin D Won't Help Most COPD Patients: Study TUESDAY, Jan. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Vitamin D supplements don't seem to help most patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a new study by Belgian investigators. Read More...
England's Doctors Seeing More Cases Of Vitamin D Deficiency Reports are coming in that England's doctors are seeing more cases of Vitamin D deficiency, with at least one expert describing the issue as a major problem. I remember my father telling me how when he was a child in London in the 1930s he developed rickets, a softening of the bones due to lack of vitamin D. He was not alone. Rickets was widespread in England at the time, but by the 1950s the ... Read More...