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Article: UCR researcher: Humans need more vitamin D
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- The Sun, San Bernardino, Calif.
- Article date:
- November 14, 2008
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RIVERSIDE - An epidemic of vitamin D deficiency is gripping the
industrialized nations and it's even worse for citizens of the Third
World.
The lack of the vitamin is affecting our overall susceptibility
to muscle weakness, osteoporosis, breast and colorectal cancer,
diabetes types 1 and 2, and heart and cardiovascular disease, a
celebrated scientist at UC Riverside said Friday.
Anthony W. Norman, a professor emeritus of biochemistry and
biomedical sciences at UCR and presidential chairman emeritus in
biochemistry, believes the nationally recommended daily dosage of
vitamin D must be increased up to tenfold from 200 international
units for anyone under 50 to 2,000 IU for everyone except ...