The vitamin D miracle: Is it for real?

Globe and Mail ^ | March 8, 2008 | MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT

[decimon]

The claims have been sensational. Martin Mittelstaedt checks up on the research behind the hype

In the summer of 1974, brothers Frank and Cedric Garland had a heretical brainwave.

The young epidemiologists were watching a presentation on death rates from cancer county by county across the United States. As they sat in a lecture hall at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore looking at the colour-coded cancer maps, they noticed a striking pattern, with the map for colon cancer the most pronounced.

Counties with high death rates were red; those with low rates were blue. Oddly, the nation was almost neatly divided in half, red in the north and blue in the south. Why, they wondered, was the risk of dying from cancer greater in bucolic Maine than in highly polluted Southern California?

[maine-iac7]

Speaking of bones - you might be interested in this thread from yesterday =

also, someone wanted my chicken broth recipe - and I posted it, with WHY home made broth is vital for bones...in my post no. 30. It's all tied in...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1982495/posts?page=30#30

[Joya]

Thank you so much for the info on homemade broth.

[Joya]

There’s research that VitD is harmful to folks with autoimmune disease because the L-form bacteria in their bodies actually increases and gets worse when VitD is taken.

Here’s the thread, posted by Blam a while ago:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1960227/posts

[Joya]

Post #51 on that thread is of particular interest.

[decimon]

Here’s the thread, posted by Blam a while ago:

C'mon, everyone knows that blam is living in the past. ;-)

[kcvl]

Thanks for those links.

[kcvl]

It snowed here Friday (4 in)for the first time in a couple of years. I thought about everyone who lives in the north and how I couldn’t take it everyday. I thought it was pretty (for the day) but I don’t know how anyone lives in that for months at a time.

[groanup]

bttt

[djf]

linked vitamin D supplements to an astonishing 60-per-cent decrease in cancer incidence among middle-aged and older women.

No wonder the FDA, nothing more than a lapdog for the big pharma concerns, wants to start regulating supplements.

[NordP]

Me neither. Had to leave as soon as I found out there WAS other options. See...that’s how they “get” you when you’re a small child...you don’t KNOW there’s anything different out there. Then, we went to Hawaii to meet my brother on his R&R from Vietnam service in the late 60s in November, and I looked around and said to myself...it IS warm other places in the winter. I was on a quest to live with palm trees swaying ever after. I love the people of Minnesota, but I’ll NEVER freeze again!

[decimon]

It just occurred to me that I should have pinged you since I mentioned you in post #45.

[STARWISE]

My son is a doc, and about 10 years ago he
was on a plane with a doc from either the
CDC or National Institutes of Health. He said
they were at THAT time studying the link
between the chemicals in sunscreen and
skin cancer.

I am not surprised at your experience.

[STARWISE]

Just got in and haven’t read your link
yet, but I bet it has to do with boiling
the bones, which I always do.

In fact, I save the bones in the freezer
after chicken meals, and use those for
my pots of soup.

[VOA]

bump

[STARWISE]

Yep .. LOL.
It’s the best.

[TigersEye]

Another Vit D ping.

[pandoraou812]

Interesting ..I am going to ask my dr about it, thanks!

[blam]

"It just occurred to me that I should have pinged you since I mentioned you in post #45."

Okay, thanks.

[maine-iac7]

Just got in and haven’t read your link yet, but I bet it has to do with boiling the bones, which I always do. In fact, I save the bones in the freezer after chicken meals, and use those for my pots of soup.

Yep - had roast Chicken for dinner today - then made broth with the carcass and veggies, strained it and it's out on he porch overnight so's the fat will congeal at the top. Tomorrow, I take that off and then make soup - which I will divide into serving sizes in baggies and freeze - and I still have enough chicken and gravy for lunch tomorrow -

So, from a Capon size (7 lb) chicken, I fed 3 adults today, have another meal tomorrow and will get about 6 big bowls of soup. Not bad for $7.

I also get beef marrow bones, bag and freeze them about 3-4 a bag and cook in with stews, soups and spaghetti sauce.

[Global2010]

When we have warmer and sunnier weather here in the rainy PNW coast I put KV out in the sun at intervals with just shorts on and man does his leaky g-tube stoma site heal up just perfect and he has the genetics from his Dad to tan quickly. I plan on joining him this summer as my Vit D-3 test just came back at 11.4 severely low. Normal range is <30-100>. I have been encouraging more folks who live here to have their docs check their levels.