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Pregnant women need to pay closer attention to the vitamin D levels in their diet, University of Ulster researchers have discovered.
Researchers from the Northern Ireland Centre for Food and Health (NICHE) carried out a study on 99 expectant mothers and tested them at three separate times during their pregnancy.
Testing at 12 and 20 weeks of pregnancy revealed that as many as 96% of the women had insufficient level of vitamin D in their blood. Examination also revealed that at these test points, 35% could be classified as vitamin D deficient at 12 weeks and 44% at 20 weeks.
The results, published in the latest edition of the British Journal of Nutrition, also showed that during the third trimester, at 35 weeks, 75% had insufficient levels of the vitamin and 16% of women were deficient.
Insufficient Levels of Vitamin D Puts Elderly at Risk of Dying From Heart Disease.
A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Denver and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) shows vitamin D plays a vital role in reducing the risk of death associated with older age. The research, just published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, evaluated the association between vitamin D levels in the blood and the death rates of those 65 and older. The study found that older adults with insufficient levels of vitamin D die from heart disease at greater rates that those with adequate levels of the vitamin.
Despite Anti Vitamin D Bias, CDC Stumbles on Deficiency Link in Deaths
So far, Swine flu, H1N1, has killed thirty-six children in U.S. and analysis of CDC data indicates Vitamin D deficient children at higher risk of death.
The CDC did not realize they discovered this. However, anyone familiar with the Vitamin D literature will recognize it.
Almost two-thirds of the dead children had epilepsy, cerebral palsy, or other neurodevelopmental conditions like mental retardation.
All of these neurological conditions are associated with childhood Vitamin D deficiency. Exacerbating the problem further, many of these kids take anticonvulsant drugs, which lower Vitamin D levels.
58 million American children are Vitamin D deficient; 7.6 million are severely deficient.
When researchers looked at more than 6,000 American kids (age one to 21) who were carefully selected to be representative of the average American child. 9 percent of the kids had 25(OH)D levels less than 15 ng/mL and 70 percent had levels less than 30 ng/mL.
Osteoporosis remains a serious health problem for the 10 million Americans who have it and the 34 million who are at risk due to low bone mass; 80% of sufferers are women. It's estimated that one half of women and one-quarter of men over age 50 will suffer an osteoporosis-related fracture
Stronger bones, a better immune system, protection from some cancers, lower blood pressure, clearer skin, and a healthier brain. These are just a few of the apparent benefits of the strangest of vitaminsvitamin D. Unlike all other vitamins, vitamin D is made by our bodies, but it requires sunshine.
In past years, some questionable causes for autism were exposed. First, theres the unification between autism and metal and vaccines. Then, theres the unification between autism and the baritone levels of antioxidants in an autistic childs body. Now, there are rattling past studies claiming that added doable drive for autism&
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Low Vitamin D Increases Flu Death Risk in Kids
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vitamin D, flu, swine flu, flu vaccine, swine flu vaccineSo far, Swine flu, H1N1, has killed thirty-six children in U.S. and analysis of CDC data indicates Vitamin D deficient children at higher risk of death.
The CDC did not realize they discovered this. However, anyone familiar with the Vitamin D literature will recognize it.
Almost two-thirds of the dead children had epilepsy, cerebral palsy, or other neurodevelopmental conditions like mental retardation.
All of these neurological conditions are associated with childhood Vitamin D deficiency. Exacerbating the problem further, many of these kids take anticonvulsant drugs, which lower Vitamin D levels.
Expecting Mothers May Face Deficiency in Vitamin D
A significant majority of woman, in child bearing age group report with high prevalence of Hypovitaminosis D (Vitamin D deficiency) and Osteomalacia (weak bones) says Prof Ayesha Khan.
One little known, but extremely common symptom of Vitamin D deficiency is pain. From bone pain to muscle pain to back pain, any and all unexplained pain COULD have vitamin D deficiency as its cause. Vitamin D deficiency has been called an epidemic. With up to 85% of people in the US Vitamin D deficient.
To keep the fat off, you need vitamin D, according to research from the Medical College of Georgia. The latest study, which focused on teenagers, found that teens who consumed the most vitamin D had less body fat, and kept fat off the waistline.
So put away the sunscreen and go outside!
Vitamin D Research May Have Doctors Prescribing Sunshine-USA Today
The vitamin is D, nicknamed the "sunshine vitamin" because the skin makes it from ultraviolet rays. Sunscreen blocks its production, but dermatologists and health agencies have long preached that such lotions are needed to prevent skin cancer.
Now some scientists are questioning that advice.
Lack of vitamin D is not only bad for the bones, it may also lead to fatter adolescents, according to a new study.
The study of more than 650 teens age 14-19 has found that those who reported higher vitamin D intakes had lower overall body fat and lower amounts of the fat in the abdomen, a type of fat known as visceral fat, which has been associated with health risks such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and hypertension.
Shedding New Light On The Importance Of The "Sunshine Vitamin"
Even though people have the ability to make their own vitamin D when the ultraviolet rays of the sun hit their skin, many Americans fail to get enough vitamin D. In fact, vitamin D deficiency in this country is being called a silent epidemic. The prudent use of sunscreen, sun-blocking pollution and long, cold winters indoors are partially to blame.
U.S. teens at risk of vitamin D deficiency, scientists warn
U.S. teens are at risk of vitamin D deficiency. A new study has suggested that one in seven American adolescents is vitamin D deficient.
They concluded more than half of African-American teens are vitamin D deficient and girls had more than twice the risk of deficiency compared with boys.
In addition to that, overweight teens had almost double the risk of their normal-weight peers.
The Real Truth Behind Flu Shots -- And Why So Few People Get the Flu During the Summer...
Getting appropriate amounts of sunshine or UV exposure through a safe tanning bed (or taking a vitamin D supplement when you can't get healthy amounts of UVB exposure) is one of my KEY preventive strategies against the cold and flu, as it has an extraordinary strengthening effect on your immune system.
Up to 85% of people could be deficient in vitamin D without knowing it
People with limited sunlight exposure. During the long grey winter months in northern latitudes, you may need to supplement your vitamin D3 unless you have access to a safe tanning bed.
A campaign last year encouraging people to soak up some sun or slip into a tanning bed to prevent a vitamin D
deficiency created all kinds of confusion for a generation used to slathering on sunscreen.
Vitamin D deficiency is rampant in the United States today.
Deficiency in vitamin D is a major culprit in disease development. It is most common in women, people of color, obese people, and breast-fed infants. It is also more common as we get older. Almost 60% of the country is deficient, 55% of kids, 75% Latinos, and 90% of African Americans.
Researchers from Oxford University and the University of British Columbia have discovered that Vitamin D deficiency affects a section of the human genome already linked with multiple sclerosis (MS) risk, adding further weight to theories that this vitamin deficiency might play a role in development of the disease.
Study shows majority of pregnant women need more vitamin D
An LDS Church-backed study has found a majority of pregnant women don't get enough vitamin D, which means their fetuses are deficient, too. The vitamin is critical for fetal growth, and a lack of it could put them at future risk for a host of diseases, including cancer, diabetes and multiple sclerosis.
Giving your children all they need to grow big and strong may not be as simple as a gummy vitamin and three square meals. They still may be susceptible to an epidemic that's starting to gain the notice of pediatricians and bone doctors across the country: vitamin D deficiency.
Mike Stone joined a growing legion of children diagnosed with the condition when an X-ray of his 14-year-old bones revealed a skeleton so thin it appeared clear on film.
Susan Tellem learned she was vitamin D deficient by accident.
"I went in for an allergy issue, and a blood test showed my vitamin D was at an all-time low," says Tellem, 62, of Malibu, Calif.
Tellem's D level was 7 ng/mL (nanograms/milliliter), well below the deficiency mark of 20 ng/mL or lower. A normal reading is 30 ng/mL or higher.
Men lacking in vitamin D have more than double the normal risk of a heart attack, a study says, one of many suggesting the vitamin is crucial to good health.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that the sunlight-will-kill-you propaganda has taken root. But these sunscreen-slathering, umbrella-toting pasties aren't any healthier for all of their misguided efforts.
You see, every time they smear the smelly gunk on their skin, cover every inch with long-sleeved shirts and silly hats, or just refuse to go outside, they're increasing their chances of developing cancer, arthritis, brittle bones, and plenty of other less-than-healthy problems. That's because in the process of blocking out the sun's UV rays, they're also blocking out one of the most important nutrients for your body-one that you literally cannot live without.
Lack of Sunshine Has Many People at Risk of Vitamin D Deficiency
There are many reasons not to like the shorter days that come this time of year, ranging from the psychological to the practical.
Heres one people might not be thinking much about. Less sunlight (not to mention less time in the sun when it is out) means less vitamin D, which is transferred to peoples bodies directly from the suns rays. And that can carry some health risks.
A national campaign to persuade every Scot to take daily supplements of vitamin D is needed if the country's appalling health record is to be reversed, leading scientists believe.
A report, published this week, links poor weather to the lack of the sunshine vitamin in Scotland, and urges the Scottish government to launch a nationwide vitamin D programme to lower the incidence of devastating illnesses, such as heart disease, cancer and multiple sclerosis.
Sunlight, as a source of vitamin D, is free and abundant, at least in most of the world. Supplements are almost as cheap. Yet a growing number of experts think that many people aren't getting enough vitamin D -- particularly those who work and play indoors and slather on sunscreen. And the more experts learn about what D does, the more worrisome a deficiency seems.
