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Vitamin D deficiency is a widespread problem
- lotusleaf1987 16y agoVitamin D also helps prevent lots of forms of cancer: http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/cancerMain.shtml http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/cancerMain.shtml
- Tichy 16y agoSomehow it seems unlikely that this is a neutral source.
- lotusleaf1987 16y agohaha, very true, I just googled vitamin D+ cancer and that was the first hit. But there are lots of other non-biased publications who claim the same thing. I heard some discussion on NPR a few months back about it is why I remembered.
- duck 16y agoThis was discussed a couple weeks ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1550974 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1550974
- lotusleaf1987 16y agoAt least it's not another Foursquare/Techcrunch article!
- Deestan 16y agoI'd recommend taking fish oil for vitamin D, as it also contains proper Omega-3 acids (many things labeled with Omega-3 contain useless variants). If you are going to be practical about it, taking a spoonful from a bottle each morning costs about 95% less than the equivalent dose from fish oil capsules. Taking a swig of fish oil ("tran") in the morning is quite common in Norway. It is normal to start giving it to kids from when they are a few months old, to get them used to the taste.
- matwood 16y agoI take fish oil capsules now and don't care for the fish burps that can come later even when I take them in the middle of a meal as opposed to after. I couldn't imagine just downing a spoonful of the stuff :)
- MtL 16y agoTry one with added lemon aroma, they should be relatively easy to get hold of. Concentrated fish oil capsules give me a more nasty aftertaste than the real liquid oil.
- torial 16y agoWhat you want is fish oil capsules with "enteric" coating. That gets rid of the fish burps. Agreed, I tried downing some fish oil by spoon (which was lemon flavored as well) and could do it longer than 5 days.
- gnaritas 16y agoSimple fix, take them before you go to bed, you won't notice the burps at all in your sleep.
- adammichaelc 16y agoIt sounds like you're recommending Cod Liver Oil, which contains both Vitamin D and Vitamin A. Be careful about the Vitamin A, as you can overdose. I take 4,000 IU of Vitamin D a day, and I also take Fish Oil (without Vitamin A or D) capsules separately, to avoid overdosing on Vitamin A.
- Deestan 16y agoYep, Cod Liver Oil.
- sosuke 16y agoDoes anyone else think that layout and number of ads screams of a made for adsense site that is more spam than genuine content?
- Vivtek 16y agoIt's a newspaper. They have to pay for that building somehow.
- newobj 16y agoI've found that taking Vitamin D seems to absolutely boost the immune system. Especially important if you live somewhere with little sun, like Seattle.
- MikeCapone 16y agoIf you take D3 supplements, make sure they are in gelcap format and not dry tablets. Vitamin D is fat-soluble and much better absorbed that way. Personally, I take 4000 UI/day (living in Canada).
- adammichaelc 16y agoOriginal article (the one at sun-sentinel appears to be a copy-paste of this): http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2010/aug/14/diet-dficiency-studies-are-showing-that-many-peopl/ http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2010/aug/14/diet-dficienc...