Saturday's Independent newspaper had vitamin D on its front page: studies indicating that there are great health benefits, and that it may be more useful in preventing colds and flu than using vitamin C.
I couldn't locate the study in Epidemiology and Infection that they are referring to, but it turns out to be an item of correspondence. I am very grateful to Mandy Guest, Knowledge Service Manager at the Islington Primary Care Trust in London, for the DOI of the item, which is
10.1017/S0950268807008308.
The December 2005 systematic review in American Journal of Public Health is, I think, this:
Garland CF, Garland FC, Gorham ED, Lipkin M, Newmark H, Mohr SB, Holick MF.
The role of vitamin D in cancer prevention.Am J Public Health. 2006 Feb;96(2):252-61. Epub 2005 Dec 27.
This appeared as an advance online publication in December 2005.
2 comments:
Depending on one's skin type, just one or two sessions in a tanning bed will process all the healthy vitamin D3 a person can use.
Suggested reading: "Solar Power For Optimal Health" by Dr. Marc Sorenson and "The UV Advantage" by Dr. Michael Holick.
Vitamin D2 from food/supplements is much less effective than vitamin D3 processed from UV light exposure on skin. See: http://www.electricbeachtan.net/Vit_D2_vs_D3.pdf
A study published in the medical journal "Cell" by Dr. David Fisher from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School concluded that tanning protects against skin cancer. See: http://www.dana-farber.org/abo/news/press/2007/guardian-of-the-genome-protein-found-to-underlie-skin-tanning.html
Dermatologists have been misleading the public about tanning. Moderate tanning is healthy behavior.
Thanks for that. The Cell paper is, I think, Cell 128(5), 853-864, available to subscribers via this DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.12.045. That issue of Cell contains other items about p53, the protein in question.
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