YOUR SECOND OPINION ON HEALTH YOU CAN TRUST AND USE WITH CONFIDENCE

What Doctors Don't Tell You is the complete review of health problems and safer, proven ways of treating them. WDDTY is a monthly journal - described as the best in the world - it's a research database, and it's a portal for you to share your health experiences.

email to friend Printer friendly

e-news

Breast Cancer: Vitamin D – or sunshine – helps keep it away

05 July 2007

Women who supplement with vitamin D – or who do a little sunbathing once or twice a week – reduce their chances of developing breast cancer.

Researchers found that the vitamin, coupled with calcium, helps protect women, and especially from more aggressive breast tumours.

This was the first major human study into the protective effects of vitamin D. It was based on the findings from the Women’s Health Study, and involved 10,578 pre-menopausal, and 20,909 post-menopausal, women, whose health was monitored for 10 years.

The researchers found that the supplements’ main protective effect was among the pre-menopausal women.

(Source: Archives of Internal Medicine, 2007; 167: 1050-9).

Click here to receive health news by email

Vitamin d and cancer - It works, but above the rda - The news that high doses of vitamin D can halve the risk of some cancers may well have had a poor reception in Brussels. While the EU bureaucrats are...

Epilepsy: Half of all victims are deficient in vitamin D - Almost every week a new piece of research finds out something else about the importance of vitamin D to our health. Now researchers have discovered t...

Vitamin D Supplements: They may help you live longer - Vitamin D is a bit of a Cinderella in the world of supplements – and yet it is the one that could help you live longer.

Sunbathing - Healing rays - The sunscreen industry would have you believe that all sun exposure is potentially dangerous. ...

Vitamin d: levels vary - Cow's milk and infant formula rarely contain the amount of vitamin D stated on the label and may be either underfortified or overfortified which could...

Vitamin d may cut diabetes risk in children - Children in a recent study who took vitamin D supplements early in life had a much lower risk of developing diabetes than those who didn’t, say resear...

Vitamin D and Osteoporosis - I am writing to see if you can offer further advice about vitamin D and osteoporosis (WDDTY vol 6 no 7).

Post-menopausal dryness - Lots of advice for the woman who wants a good lubricant.

Register for our health updates and free gifts.

How You Beat Asthma
How To Beat Your M.E.
How You Beat ADHD
How You Beat Arthritis
How You Beat Backpain
How You Beat Depression How You Beat Pain
How You Beat The Menopause
How You Beat Heart Problems
WDDTY Health Shop