VITAMIN D AND CANCER: It works, but way above the RDA

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VITAMIN D AND CANCER:  It works, but way above the RDA

The news that high doses of vitamin D can halve the risk of developing

some cancers may well have had a poor reception in Brussels.  The EU

bureaucrats are deciding on the potency of vitamins that will be freely

available in shops throughout Europe - and the new cancer study shows

that therapeutic levels need to be far higher than the Recommended Daily

Allowance (RDA).

The University of California research team has found that vitamin D3 -

which is available as a supplement - has a protective effect only at

levels of 1000 IUs (international units) a day.  The UK government's

recommended safe upper limit dose is just 400 IUs, whereas in the USA

it's set at 2000 IUs.

The study team researched studies that had been published between 1966

and 2004 on cancer and vitamin D, and concluded that thousands of lives

could be saved if people had sufficient bodily stores of vitamin D. 

Scientists reckon that around one in 10 people in the West are deficient

in the vitamin.

It is most readily available from the sun itself, but scientists are

concerned that over-exposure can lead to skin cancer.  Instead, they

recommend that people get the vitamin from supplements and from food

such as egg yolk, fish oil and liver.

The study highlights the divide between those who take supplements at

the RDA levels, and the minority who take them at the far higher

therapeutic levels.  The study is a belated, but welcome, blow for the

minority.  Let's hope that the EU bureaucrats take heed.

(Source: American Journal of Public Health, published online, December

27, 2005)

[Guest guest]

This is good news, but sure took them along time to find this out!

I remember when coffee was suppose to cause pancreatic cancer, then they said

it did not. Now they say coffee prevents breast cancer. Hormone treatment for

women was suppose to protect the heart, then they said it did not protect, but

caused breast cancer.

Now there is parthenolide (feverfew) that kills leukemia stem cells in the

lab. This could be a cure for leukemia, and perhaps other blood cancers. So,

instead of using it in trials, the decide to let a pharmaceutical company make a

synthetic version. This not only wastes times and lives, but also increases

cost and gives the drug company control of a new drug. Feverfew is a natural

herb.

robert-blau@... wrote:

[wddty.co.uk]

VITAMIN D AND CANCER: It works, but way above the RDA

The news that high doses of vitamin D can halve the risk of developing

some cancers may well have had a poor reception in Brussels. The EU

bureaucrats are deciding on the potency of vitamins that will be freely

available in shops throughout Europe - and the new cancer study shows

that therapeutic levels need to be far higher than the Recommended Daily

Allowance (RDA).

The University of California research team has found that vitamin D3 -

which is available as a supplement - has a protective effect only at

levels of 1000 IUs (international units) a day. The UK government's

recommended safe upper limit dose is just 400 IUs, whereas in the USA

it's set at 2000 IUs.

The study team researched studies that had been published between 1966

and 2004 on cancer and vitamin D, and concluded that thousands of lives

could be saved if people had sufficient bodily stores of vitamin D.

Scientists reckon that around one in 10 people in the West are deficient

in the vitamin.

It is most readily available from the sun itself, but scientists are

concerned that over-exposure can lead to skin cancer. Instead, they

recommend that people get the vitamin from supplements and from food

such as egg yolk, fish oil and liver.

The study highlights the divide between those who take supplements at

the RDA levels, and the minority who take them at the far higher

therapeutic levels. The study is a belated, but welcome, blow for the

minority. Let's hope that the EU bureaucrats take heed.

(Source: American Journal of Public Health, published online, December

27, 2005)

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