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Article: Vitamin D deficiency on the rise.(Vitamins/Nutrition)
- Article from:
- Chain Drug Review
- Article date:
- October 24, 2005
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NEW YORK -- When most of the world's population lived in or near equatorial regions, people had no deficiency in vitamin D, but as people moved to areas with less solar exposure natural vitamin D production in the skin declined.
While recent and justifiable concerns about overexposure to the sun and skin cancer have influenced many people to avoid the sun, what has proven good for the skin may be bad for natural vitamin D production.
A growing body of research indicates this is also bad for health. Over the past five years, studies have linked a broad range of benefits to getting enough vitamin D, showing that the nutrient fights cancers and diabetes and ...
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