[decimon]

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[DJ MacWoW]

47 Days And FR Is Still Short Of Its Goal
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[TEXOKIE]

THank you for keeping track and bringing of all this to us, decimon!

[muir_redwoods]

Here’s a question. If this finding is true, do very fair skinned people like redheads have a lower rate of colon cancer? Fair skinned people produce much more vitamin D from sunlight than dark skinned people do so it would seem the fairer skinned people would, on average, have a lower rate of colon cancer just as they have a higher rate of skin cancer.

[brytlea]

The body not only obtains vitamin D from food, especially milk

Milk is a very poor source of vitamin D. An 8 oz glass contains only 100 iu.

[Roos_Girl]

I’ve read a couple of articles that said that Vit D taken when there is a deficiency in Vit K (which supposedly most people have) that supplementing with Vit D can actually lead to heart disease.

[brytlea]

Oh, and I should have said, my post wasn’t aimed at you, I think you already know that, it was aimed at the writer of the article. ;)

[fightinJAG]

In the FWIW category, I’d like to pass this anecdote on to Freepers:

I have had chronically low Vit D for years, starting with diagnosis with a severe autoimmune disease.

Over the years, I have taken all kinds of supplements and prescriptions, and made dietary changes, to try to raise my Vit D to normal levels. One prob I always had with that is I knew there were several different types of Vit D and no pill was going to get it right in terms of what my body actually needed. and anyway, no matter what I took or ate, my Vit D levels remained stubornly very low.

At the same time, I took meds that advised “stay out of the sun,” plus I fell for the ubiquitous admonition to use massive amounts of sunscreen whenever I was at the beach or wherever. So I wasn’t getting any natural Vit D and I can tell you no doctor ever recommended that either.

Recently I said the hell with this and started sunning, sunbathing, whatever you want to call it — laying out in the sun with as few clothes on as possible.

I started with about ten minutes a day. As soon as my skin felt hot, I went in. I worked up to about 45-60 minutes a day. Again, changing position as soon as I could feel my skin getting hot. (This amount of sun has not been enough to make me tan, if that means anything.)

I did this about two months, then had some bloodwork done. Would you believe that for the first time in at least two decades my blood Vit D levels were normal?

I feel that not only am I “getting” more Vit D, that my body is making the right mix of Vit Ds, unlike any pill I could take.

Yes, it’s a very “duh” point after the fact. But anyway, just throw it out there for people interested in Vit D.

[Sacajaweau]

Damn it....The sun is not your enemy. Farmers have worked in the sun since the beginning of time.

Wear a hat and a longsleeve cotton shirt if you will be out for a long time....and Stop the sunscreen.

Other times....walk in the sunshine, hum a little tune and smile.

[Logic n' Reason]

Excellent article....gives one hope. My dear Dad died of colon cancer. It was before the flexible scope and the knowledge of D-3.

I get my check every three years...and take my D-3 religiously (5,000IU).

Thanks again for the excellent article.