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Article: Studies shed light on 'sunshine vitamin'
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- January 22, 2008
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Inside a laboratory at Stanford University, researchers are
confidently pursuing evidence that vitamin D plays an important role
in breast and prostate cancer prevention.
At Children's Hospital Oakland, a famed scientist is convinced
that widespread deficiency of vitamin D in the U.S. population leads
to poor immune system and brain functioning, among other conditions.
And scientists at the University of California, Davis, this month
were awarded $600,000 by the federal government to study the link
between vitamin D and major diseases of the day.
For decades, most people paid little attention to vitamin D --
called the "sunshine vitamin," since sun rays absorbed by the skin
synthesize the ...
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