Vitamin D Deficiency

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I just got a call from my Dr and said that my bloodwork showed I was very deficient in Vit D. Huh? Didn't know there was such a thing. He gave me a prescription 1 pill twice a week. I tried to read up on it and it said that sunshine is a primary source. Hello? I'm as brown as a berry. What's up? shaggy

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USAToday Article:

Adults still risk vitamin D deficiency - USATODAY.com

[vintner Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close vintner]

If I remember correctly, Vitamin D is added to milk. Drink your milk Shaggy.

[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

If I remember correctly, Vitamin D is added to milk. Drink your milk Shaggy.

and eat your vegetables !!!! (and fruits !)


Caltrate is good.

[Marti Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Marti]

Clue: Bone Pain and Weak Muscles


In adults, vitamin D deficiency

can lead to osteomalacia, resulting in weak muscles and bones.
Symptoms of bone pain and muscle weakness can indicate inadequate vitamin D
levels, but such symptoms can be subtle and go undetected in the initial stages.

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I'm more confused than ever after reading the USA today. I eat all those foods, fish, eggs, cheese, I love vegetables, just ate stewed squash w cheese and peas w/okra and a tuna fish salad sandwich. The only thing is I eat tuna in water not in oil. I also love fruit. I am going in for a bone density. This should be interesting, ----hmmm. shaggy

[falmouth3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close falmouth3]

And if you take a calcium tablet, get them with Vitamin D included.

Sue

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

and my personal favorite way to get Vitamin D?

SUNSHINE!

everybody to the beach!

The vitamin is D, nicknamed the "sunshine vitamin" because the skin makes it from ultraviolet rays. Sunscreen blocks its production, but dermatologists and health agencies have long preached that such lotions are needed to prevent skin cancer.

Now some scientists are questioning that advice.

The reason is that vitamin D increasingly seems important for preventing and even treating many types of cancer. In the last three months alone, four separate studies found it helped protect against lymphoma and cancers of the prostate, lung and, ironically, the skin. The strongest evidence is for colon cancer.

Many people aren't getting enough vitamin D. It's hard to do from food and fortified milk alone, and supplements are problematic.

So the thinking is this: Even if too much sun leads to skin cancer, which is rarely deadly, too little sun may be worse.

No one is suggesting that people fry on a beach. But many scientists believe that "safe sun" — 15 minutes or so a few times a week without sunscreen — is not only possible but helpful to health.

One is Dr. Edward Giovannucci, a Harvard University professor of medicine and nutrition who laid out his case in a keynote lecture at a recent American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Anaheim, Calif.

His research suggests that vitamin D might help prevent 30 deaths for each one caused by skin cancer.

"I would challenge anyone to find an area or nutrient or any factor that has such consistent anti-cancer benefits as vitamin D," Giovannucci told the cancer scientists. "The data are really quite remarkable."

[dale7 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dale7]

I just got a call from my Dr and said that my bloodwork showed I was very deficient in Vit D. Huh? Didn't know there was such a thing. He gave me a prescription 1 pill twice a week. I tried to read up on it and it said that sunshine is a primary source. Hello? I'm as brown as a berry. What's up? shaggy

May be you need to be nude when you are in the sun.

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I just got a call from my Dr and said that my bloodwork showed I was very deficient in Vit D. Huh? Didn't know there was such a thing. He gave me a prescription 1 pill twice a week. I tried to read up on it and it said that sunshine is a primary source. Hello? I'm as brown as a berry. What's up? shaggy

At northern latitudes (most of the U.S.) the sun's rays aren't direct enough to cause enough vitamin D creationin the skin except during the height of summer. But that's also when you're most likely to burn. (At least that's what many researchers say.)

[shaggy Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close shaggy]

May be you need to be nude when you are in the sun.

Don't want to scare anybody!!shaggy

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

Shaggy are you brown as a berry all year long or only because you just completed the BVI cruise?

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I have olive skin and I am usually brown most of the year but I am now really, really, brown. shaggy

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Shaggy - Vitamin D Deficiency - Any news or update


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Yummy Chewable Tablets!

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Dr. put me on Caltrate with D. in addition to the straight Vit. D pill