June 20, 2008

Vitamin D improves colon cancer survival rates

Tags: , — Darcy Elliott @ 7:20 am

Vitamin D improves colon cancer survival rates

The authors of this new study found a significant trend for lower death rate as pre-cancer diagnosis levels of vitamin D increased.

April 14, 2008

Vitamin D News: Kids and diabetes, Memory study, Colon Cancer

Tags: , , — Darcy Elliott @ 7:30 am

It’s turning out to be a pretty busy Vitamin D news day.

Here a few headlines:

1. Taking vitamin D supplements in early childhood could dramatically cut the chance of developing Type 1 diabetes later in life, medical experts claim.

2. Volunteers sought to test vitamin D memory effect. This is one I’ve been wondering about lately. I’ve not done any Internet research on this topic yet, but I’m curious about a connection between Alzheimer’s and low vitamin D. Not sure if there’s a geographic pattern to Alzheimer’s, wouldn’t that be interesting…

3. Vitamin D and calcium influence cell death in the colon, researchers find

That’s all for now, happy reading!