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?

[STARWISE]

Perhaps you could ask your Dr. Son about the controversy over vitamin E

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Better late than never on the Vit. E issue...;)

Doc son says it’s the type of Vit. E that matters.
It MUST be mixed tocopherols ..that’s the good kind.
So, you have to read the label carefully.

I’m presently taking 400iu/day he got for me from
Designs for Health: “High Gamma/Delta Vit. E”
which has 4 different types of tocopherols.

[grey_whiskers]

Remind me to post later: I read (prob'ly here on FR, but not sure) that ingredients in a few of the commercial sunscreens are themselves POTENT free-radical generators.

If that's true (haven't researched it yet, tho') it would be consistent with your ideas...

Stay inside and drink beer.

Cheers!

[Theodore R.]

When I see the word “real” in the political arena, I think of GA’s Jimmuh Carter saying, “the energy crisis is real”. And the American believed him for several years.

[Theodore R.]

Good use of your resources for sure, but it sounds likes more work than most people would want to do.