A new study has disclosed that milk fortified with vitamin D could prove useful for making our bones stronger besides prevention of cancer and heart diseases.
Vitamin D is important for absorption of calcium and maintaining high standards of bone health along with proving additional worth by helping in prevention of Alzheimer’s disease.
From in.news.yahoo.com:
Recent research has shown that vitamin D supplements are as good as some drugs at keeping prostate cancer under control.
It is also being said that taking vitamin D supplements in pregnancy and childhood could wipe out 80 percent of cases of multiple sclerosis.
Susan Lanham-New, the member of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition and Surrey University nutritionist, said a study of 14,000 pregnant women in Bristol during the 1990s found that more than 90 percent of them were not getting enough of the vitamin.
She said: ‘Vitamin D is known to be vital for a wide range of body functions. A lot of us are very worried about (deficiencies) and think it needs looking at.’
It is worth noting here that Vitamin D-rich foods include oily fish and eggs but as much as 90 percent of supply of this vitamin comes from the action of sunlight on the skin.
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