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For the nutrition tip of the day, A new study adds to an ever growing body of science supporting the benefits of maintaining healthy vitamin D levels.


In adults, it is said vitamin D deficiency may precipitate or exacerbate osteopenia, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, fractures, common cancers, autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases and cardiovascular diseases. There is also some evidence that the vitamin may reduce the incidence of several types of cancer and type-1 diabetes.


The first study, which followed 3,113 men across Europe aged between 40 and 79, found that higher blood levels of vitamin D were associated with better performance in tests of attention and speed of information processing. Results of the European Male Ageing Study (EMAS) are published online in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.

Also, the benefits of Vitamin D seem to help support conditions like asthma.Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania report that vitamin D may also slow the progressive decline in breathing that can occur in asthmatics as a result of human airway smooth muscle (HASM) proliferation.


According to findings presented at the American Thoracic Society’s 105th International Conference in San Diego, calcitriol, a form of vitamin D synthesized within the body, could reduce growth-factor-induced HASM proliferation, which leads to reduced lung function over time.


So always get your healthy Vitamin D from sunshine and from a healthy diet!
wishing you the best of health!
Dr. Luigi
Website: http://drluigi.com
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
May 2009, doi:10.1136/jnnp.2008.165720
“Association between 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and cognitive performance in middle-aged and older European men”
Authors: D.M. Lee, A. Tajar, A. Ulubaev, N. Pendleton, T.W. O'Neill et al.