Posted on 04/20/2008 7:37:31 AM PDT by blam
I live close to Auburn.
After this spring freeze, I’m wondering if we’re in for a scorcher of a summer.
Honestly!
Whenever you would ask my mom why she didn’t drink Milk, she would tell you that beer is better for you.
Not kidding, it’s better for men’s prostate. Truly. Milk is bad, bad, bad.
Vitamin H. Is that anything like Preparation H?
If you have too many of them you might need Preparation H
We moved to Washington in the fall of 1990, the next year we had the last of many winter snow storms in March, that left us without electricity for three days. We never wore short sleeves the whole summer. It was cold and wet and the mosquitoes were terrible.
Yes, blood tests are important because there are a couple of bad things that can happen with too much D3. Not much of a danger, but still . . .
I agree that vitamin D can be hazardous to health. After all, look at what happens to calves. They wind up as steak on someone's plate. That's what vitamin D does.
I agree!
However the vitamin in beer does no harm.
Your heart is in the right place, but you've got the wrong supplement. Recent studies have shown that it's a phosphorous problem, not vitamin D or sunshine, a discussion on this page refers to the Harvard Medical study:
A paper published in March 2007 by Demay, Sabbagh and Carpenter Calcium and vitamin d: what is known about the effects on growing bone, should finally put the vitamin-D deficiency rickets myth to bed. The Demay group found that the metabolic cause of rickets is hypophosphatemia.This cause has been discussed since this 1857 paper, which suggests it was adulteration of flour with alum, that made the phosphorous in the flour indigestible that cause the rickets problem in London. Blaming the problem on VitD let the bakers off the hook.
I think you are way off the mark here, Vitamin D in quantity is deadly, and is (or was) used as rat poison. The problem with it is that there is no antidote. See: Vitamin D as a Rodent Control Or: Nearly-Dr Ferox: Rat Poison
Old rat poisons were made of cholecalciferol, which is essentially the same as good ol’ Vitamin D, there’s just lots more of it. It causes the body to retain calcium, but too much! Soft tissues become mineralised and non functional, including the heart, arterioles and the kidneys. Acute renal failure is usually the cause of death, and there’s no antidote or treatment once the poison is in the animal’s system, or the soft tissues are affected.
The danger is small; overdose is extremely rare. I’m doing this under the care of a DO.
http://www.level1diet.com/vitamin-d-nutritional-supplement-health-benefits.html
Well, good luck with that (and no sarcasm intended). I'm under the care of a Dr, and going the opposite way, reducing my D to a minimum. So far the diabetes is gone, and most of the other problems I've had with long term auto-immune (sarcoid) are greatly reduced.
The Truth About Vitamin D: Fourteen Reasons Why Misunderstanding Endures
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