New analysis confirms vitamin D bone benefits
Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:26pm EDT
By Anne Harding
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older people can prevent fractures by taking vitamin D supplements, a new study confirms, as long as they use a high enough dose-and keep taking it.
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Given growing evidence that vitamin D may also lower cancer risk, and the fact that the nutrient is safe at fairly high doses, younger people may want to consider vitamin D supplements too, the researcher said.
"A lot of people think a healthy nutrition is good enough, but unfortunately vitamin D is very hard to cover by food sources," Bischoff-Ferrari added. To get adequate vitamin D through food alone, she explained, a person would need to eat two servings of fatty fish like salmon or mackerel every day.
SOURCE: Archives of Internal Medicine, March 23, 2009.
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