Vitamin D lowering cancer risk Posted: 07-23-08 03:02am
Cancer researchers urged people on
Wednesday to take more vitamin D to lower
their risk of colon, breast and ovarian
cancer, saying studies showed a clear
link.
"Our suggestion is for people to
increase their intake," through diet or a
vitamin supplement, Dr. Cedric Garland
said in a telephone interview.
Garland's research team reviewed 63
studies, including several large long-term
ones, on the relationship between and
certain types of cancer worldwide between
1966 and 2004.
He said the benefit of vitamin D was
as clear as the harmful link between
smoking and lung cancer.
"There's nothing that has this ability
to prevent cancer," he said, urging
governments and public health officials to
do more to fortify foods with vitamin D.
Garland is part of a University of
California at San Diego Moores Cancer
Center team that published its findings
this week online in the American Journal
of Public Health.
The paper concluded that vitamin D
deficiency may account for several
thousand premature deaths from colon,
breast, ovarian and other cancers
annually.
Vitamin D is found in milk, as well as
in some fortified orange juice, yogurt and
cheeses, usually at around 100
international units (IU) a serving.
People might want to consider a
vitamin supplement to raise their intake
to 1000 IUs per day, Garland said, adding
that it was well within the safety
guidelines established by the National
Academy of Sciences.
The authors said that taking more
vitamin D could be especially important
for people living in northern areas, which
receive less vitamin D from sunshine.
African Americans, who don't produce
as much of the vitamin because of their
skin pigment, could also benefit
significantly from a higher intake, the
authors said.
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