What You Need to Know about Vitamin D

 

Posted by Barbara Armstrong Green

Welcome. Vitamin D is something I never paid much attention to.  That’s the sunshine vitamin, I thought.  All I have to do is walk outside for a while and I'm covered. And besides, I can also get Vitamin D from various food sources such as fish, eggs, fortified milk, and cod liver oil.

But it turns out to be more complicated than that. I'm paying attention now and so should you.

According to  Dr. Joel Fuhrman, board certified family physician and New York Times bestselling author of Super  Immunity, "Vitamin D can provide powerful cancer protection. Yet Vitamin D insufficiency is common among Americans overall but more prevalent among African Americans. A recent review of the literature suggests that Vitamin D insufficiency is a key contributor to cancer survival disparities that exist between African Americans and white Americans (darker skin is less efficient at producing vitamin D in response to UV rays).

A striking part of this literature review is the comprehensive summary of the existing data on vitamin D status and cancer survival. The authors present a long list of studies reporting that Vitamin D adequacy is associated with reduced risk of death in all cancers combined, breast, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancer, leukemia and lymphomas.”

Click the Prevention Tab on our web site to read Dr. Fuhrman's entire article.

The author, Dr. Joel Fuhrman is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and board certified family physician specializing in lifestyle and nutritional medicine. His new book Super Immunity discusses how to naturally strengthen the immune system against everything from the common cold to cancer

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