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From: Marshall Price on 26 Apr 2008 20:22 Juhana Harju wrote: > Marshall Price wrote: >> Juhana Harju wrote: > >>> Here is an in-depth online lecture 'Vitamin D Pandemic and Its Health >>> Consequences'. The lecture was presented by Professor and vitamin D >>> scholar Michael Holick in the 34th European Symposium on Calcified >>> Tissues last year. >>> >>> http://www.uvadvantage.org/portals/0/pres/ >>> >> Is there any text available? > > I have not seen the text anywhere. > >> What's the gist of it? >> >> (I'm on a low-bandwidth connection here.) > > I saw the lecture about one and half weeks ago, so I don't remember it in > detail but the central message is that vitamin D deficiency is common all > over the world; sufficient vitamin D would reduce the risk of many diseases > (osteoporosis, diabetes, many cancers, infectious diseases, hypertension, > some skin diseases, MS); and much higher doses of vitamin D are needed than > what the official recommendations currently are. Nothing new actually, but > the lecture is very convincing and well presented. > That's what one of the expert guests on "The Charlie Rose Show" said. I think he recommended 1,000 IU, at least for some people. -- Marshall Price of Miami Known to Yahoo as d021317c |