Filed in archive Breast Cancer by Florence Cardinal on February 11, 2007

I'm a great believer in taking vitamins. As well as any prescription drugs the doctor may have me on, I always take a multi-vitamin and mineral pill, a vitamin B complex pill and calcium supplements every day. A post in BrainTalk Communities brought this topic to my attention although I'm not sure if Nick the writer, believes in the story or not.

The article, entitled Vitamin D Backed For Cancer Prevention In Two New Studies originally appeared in Science Daily tells us that:

Two new vitamin D studies using a sophisticated form of analysis called meta-analysis, in which data from multiple reports is combined, have revealed new prescriptions for possibly preventing up to half of the cases of breast cancer and two-thirds of the cases of colorectal cancer in the United States. The work was conducted by a core team of cancer prevention specialists at the Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and colleagues from both coasts.

You can get Vitamin D from different sources, including sunlight, diet and supplements. Further research is needed to find out the effect of the different sources.

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Response from: Mousefinger (02/12/07 3:01am)

Synthetic multi-vitamins are garbage. You're wasting your money buying and taking them every day. They're an insurance policy that's too expensive and one you're being lied about. You would do well to read this article published in the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?ex=13
27640400&en=a18a7f35515014c7&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

If that link doesn't work, it basically blows synthetic vitamins out of the water. That article gives you a good glimpse as to WHY synthetic pill form vitamins taken orally are a waste from the roots of the processed food industry. You would do well to read this also:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19125631.500-the-antioxid
ant-myth-a-medical-fairy-tale.html

That discusses the myth of antioxidants as they are proscribed today.

Good luck. I'm sure you think I'm nuts. Cheers (and Roebuck).

=^.^=

Response from: Florence (02/17/07 10:01am)

No. I certainly don't think you're nuts, and everyone is welcome to his or her own opinion. I do know, though, that I feel much better when I'm taking my vitamins.

Response from: Daryl Saari (10/08/08 12:20am)

I found this information very useful, and will tell my family about this, because they are always looking for better solutions and ideas. Thank You very much, and let me know about any other ideas you can offer, by leaving a comment back to me about anything else you recommend. Thanks!

Response from: Dan (11/01/09 10:48pm)

Vitamin D is also important for a number of other obscure diseases such as: Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and depression.

For a large summary of obscure Vitamin D studies check out this page.