More D, Less Death

In recent years, vitamin D has emerged from being a bone vitamin to being a nearly everything vitamin. Recent research has pointed to the benefits of vitamin D for everything from osteoporosis to cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, depression, back pain and more.

The latest study looked at blood levels of vitamin D in 9,578 people. . . .

Compared to people with sufficient levels of vitamin D, people who were deficient in vitamin D were:
 

 

  • 1.7 times more likely to die of any cause,
  • 1.4 times more likely to die of cardiovascular disease,
  • 1.4 times more likely to die of cancer, and
  • 2.5 times more likely to die of respiratory disease.

     Am J Clin Nutr 2013;97:782-793

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