There have been studies to suggest that it might help prevent colon, prostate, and breast cancers.
“There really is no health boost for vitamin D supplementation,” Clifford J.
Rosen of the Maine Medical Center Research Institute in Scarborough, told Vox.
Between 20, the amount Medicare spent on vitamin D testing rose 83-fold, making the test Medicare’s fifth most popular, after cholesterol.
These tests uncovered lots of low vitamin D levels — but there’s a scientific debate about how many of them are true deficiencies.
In 2010, the Institute of Medicine (now known as the National Academy of Medicine) brought together an expert committee to review the evidence on the vitamin and figure out whether there was a widespread deficiency problem in North America.
According to the 14-member panel, 97.5 percent of the population got an adequate amount of vitamin D from diet and the sun.
(Vitamin D occurs naturally in fatty fish such as salmon and tuna, beef liver, cheese, and egg yolks.
It’s also found in fortified foods such as milk, orange juice, and cereal.) “You are at risk of D deficiency only if you have no sun exposure, live above 55 degrees latitude, and do not eat vitamin D-fortified paper.
“Maybe people will stop taking vitamin D supplements, but somehow I doubt it.
Vitamin D may also play a role in muscle function and the immune system.
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World-wide research architecture of vitamin D research density.
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Vitamin D Deficiency, Its Role in Health and Disease, and Current.
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Vitamin D and Health The Nutrition Source Harvard T. H. Chan.
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The Largest Ever Clinical Study on Vitamin D Shows We're Wrong.
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Vitamin D An Evidence-Based Review American Board of Family.
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