Vitamin d News

Health shops often have vitamin supplements for sale. However, with vitamin D research suggests that very high blood levels of vitamin D confer no additional benefit and could, in fact, be potentially harmful.

University of Edinburgh researchers have found rates of multiple sclerosis are highest in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. The study results shows rates have increased since 1980.

New research on humans shows that daily vitamin D3 supplements can help lower body fat. Obese subjects showed significant improvements in body fat levels.

Recent scientific research reveals that vitamin D deficiency is common in sick children, it could raise death risk in older adults, and that normal supply of vitamin D is important for brain development and function.

Copenhagen - A CopD study conducted by researchers in Copenhagen has confirmed the importance of vitamin D for good health, but revealed that high levels of vitamin D are linked to increased mortality rates.

Researchers in Europe have recently launched a new study called DO-HEALTH that will examine strategies to promote healthy aging.

Vitamin D has been in the news recently for all the wrong reasons, but how do we make sense out of so many conflicting reports?

The increase of rickets amongst British children is an alarming trend. The disease was eradicated in Britain during Victorian times, but is reemerging due to a lack of exposure to sunlight.

Menopausal and postmenopausal women's risks for many diseases increases, and sticking to a healthy diet is one natural preventive measure. Recent studies that analysed the diets of peri- and postmenopausal Spanish women found vitamin D deficiency common.

Women with higher levels of Vitamin D were less likely to show early effects from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), according to a recent study.