Vitamin D Prevents Cancer: Is It True?
In a new study, researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center used a complex computer prediction model to determine that intake of vitamin D3 and calcium would prevent 58,000 new cases of breast cancer and 49,000 new cases of colorectal cancer annually in the US and Canada. The researchers model also predicted that 75% of deaths from these cancers could be prevented with adequate intake of vitamin D3 and calcium. Join Carole Baggerly with GrassrootsHealth as she discusses this new research. Watch the YouTube video to the right.
Demand soars for vitamin D
Why your child may need vitamin D supplements
John Jacob Cannell MD John Jacob Cannell was born in Washington DC on June 21, 1948. During his college years he had a penchant for social activism and was deeply involved in working against the Vietnam War. While at University of Maryland he helped organize the "March on Washington" and also demonstrated against the war at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention. In 1969, he dropped out of college to join the government's Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) program. Quickly dismayed with VISTA's ineffectiveness, Cannell returned to University of Maryland where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in Zoology. Cannell then went on to medical school at the University of North Carolina. After a year of a surgery internship at the University of Utah and four years of practicing itinerant emergency medicine, he began as a general practitioner in the coalfields of Appalachia. Watch Dr John Cannell's talk about Vitamin D on YouTube to the right of this article.
Vitamin D Supplements Could Help Fight Diabetes
Want to live longer? Try Vitamin D
Vitamin D News Vitamin D, specifically vitamin D3 cholecalciferol, is quite the hot topic lately. Medical journals are overflowing with the latest research findings on vitamin D and the many ways it is beneficial to one's health. Almost daily, vitamin D appears to be dominating the headlines in the media, and people all over the globe are starting to realize that vitamin D is one health factor that should not be overlooked.
Vitamin May Play Protective Role Against Common Cancer
