Any woman reading this must check the new data regarding vitamin D deficiency and breast cancer. It is now VERY clear that most breast cancer cases could be avoided by maintaining healthy, natural levels of vitamin D- year round.
The irrefutable research confirms that up to 80% of all breast cancer can be avoided by maintaining healthy levels of activated vitamin D, year round.
The experts who have researched this insist on at least 50 ng/ml (25 OH D). Your doctor will know next to nothing about it because the drug companies and committees didn't tell him/her. Do your own research and make your own determination. DO NOT ignore this advice because what they do not know may seriously impact your health. Read the findings and make it clear to them you need an opinion.
New research shows, curiously, a direct correlation with weight loss and higher levels of vitmain D. In one recent study for every 2 ng/ml of rise (25 OH D) apprx. one 1lb. (1 lb.) was lost- and staid off. To be fair researchers do not know if it is causation or otherwise. It risks NOTHING to elevate D levels to healthy, natural levels and the related benefits...let's just say losing weight is small change compared to the whole package...
Here is the link to Grassroots Health with supporting data:
Letters have been sent to all countries of the world to alert and mobilize national health authorities to the findings. This is real, the data is solid, and it is not going away.
"Vitamin D" is nothing of the kind. In its metabolized form it is Calcitriol, BY FAR the human body's most powerful steroid. It is also the mobilizer of immunity- T-cells- which explains what everyone who uses it knows: you never get sick! Oh and the part about feeling 20-30 years younger?
Completely, utterly true!
I've turned 30 people I know on to this cheap miracle and every one of them has thanked me dozens of times. If you are over 40 you will see what I mean in even a few days.
The all important goal is to get to 50 ng/ml and stay there- for life. The common sufficiency level of 30 ng/ml is based on thread bare data available at the time it was set. 200 i.u. as and RDI (not RDA) is less D than a 20 year old white person synthesizes in the body in 10 (ten) seconds standing in the sun.
Vitamin D toxification is so remote as to bring into question the competence of anyone warning of it. By far- millions of times more common- and damaging- is deficiency.
Investigate everything you can about vitamin D. Do it now! It matters more than you possibly know. It works, and has nearly unlimited applicability to humanity.
If it were 300 years past we'd still be suffering from scurvy. Not today but, perhaps, tomorrow, we will put D deficiency in the past.
ArcRoyalof MD7:46PM April 20, 2010
"The paragraph about eating 6 mini-meals is terrible advice. There are no studies to support this myth. In fact, recent studies show eating 3 meals is superior for appetite control (due to the hormone gherelin)."
I disagree entirely. There is plenty of proof that eating several meals a day works for many people in reducing weight. I'm a 36 year old female, my mother and grandmother both had breast cancer. Many in my family are overweight and in an effort to prevent this from happening to me I decided to listen to my nutritionist and doctor to see what I can do to minimize the risk of breast cancer. I'm 5'6", 120lbs and weigh less than I did in college/high school. I attribute this to eating several small meals a day versus breakfast/lunch/dinner. In my late 20's, I weighed 130-140 lbs and this was with a regular workout. Now, I do the same workout but I get to eat more often through the day. The key is to never eat until you are stuffed. Reducing the amount of red meat in my diet was also a major factor. Having been brought up in Texas, that was no easy task.
Jillianof CO7:29PM April 20, 2010
"The paragraph about eating 6 mini-meals is terrible advice. There are no studies to support this myth. In fact, recent studies show eating 3 meals is superior for appetite control (due to the hormone gherelin)."
Can you post that study ? I don't agree at all. I eat all day long and my energy levels and weight are ideal. Bodybuilders follow the multi meal plan and most are ripped.
Stevenof NY7:07PM April 20, 2010
The paragraph about eating 6 mini-meals is terrible advice. There are no studies to support this myth. In fact, recent studies show eating 3 meals is superior for appetite control (due to the hormone gherelin).
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