Perhaps, though there is a fascinating link between the three illnesses you mention and vitamin D deficiency.[1] The human body is a complex organism that we ar

Perhaps, though there is a fascinating link between the three illnesses you mention and vitamin D deficiency.[1] The human body is a complex organism that we are only beginning to understand, but there are a few critical things that the human body absolutely needs to survive and thrive. In the short-term, we all need adequate food, water, and air. Without this short-term fuel, we die. In the long-term, vitamin D <rant>misnamed as it is not a vitamin but is actually the most powerful seco-steroid hormone in the body -- a seco-steroid hormone is basically just something in the body that is made from cholesterol and turns genes on and off</rant> optimizes health. If you think about it, it makes sense intuitively that vitamin D would be so critical. Most living things have adapted to make something useful from the sun's radiation. Plants use it to feed themselves, and most animals use it to help generate vitamin D. [1] Sorry for the crazy-long-and-to-a-google-doc link -- I didn't want to give the PDF-link and the original New England Journal of Medicine HTML page is subscriber-only: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:o13HNdtJjWwJ:citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download%3Fdoi%3D10.1.1.170.7365%26rep%3Drep1%26type%3Dpdf+%22Once+foods+were+fortified+with+vitamin+D%22&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiAOVcHK9RsThFEA_zC3UZOJfl_XlcelFDCShAKOEuQBG08jpipLbN7qh_XY8POyTlz9tivJZ-dGH70gt333GbzmtnI1djAGA189hCRH3qY6E8Z6psvfvfa4gDZvuLwLniWrVmn&sig=AHIEtbQufT8zAix7xq-XvIGpofnQ40ooSw http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:o13HNdtJjWwJ:c...