Oh Vitamin D, how many are your wonders ... (mostly via vitamindcouncil.org with a few extras from other sources at the end)
Link Between Autism and Low Levels of Vitamin D
Vitamin D hope in prostate cancer
Absolutely essential for the proper function of the bones and central nervous system.
Vitamin D plays a critical role in enabling the immune system to successfully defeat viruses of all kinds.
Low levels linked to several indicators of allergy and asthma severity.
Vitamin D is well known to be an integral part of normal bone health and growth.
There is new information about problems that teenagers can suffer later in life if they don't get enough vitamin D now.
Compared to the 25% of teens with the highest levels of vitamin D in their blood, the 25% of teens with the lowest vitamin D levels had: *Fourfold greater risk of metabolic syndrome, a combination of risk factors for diabetes *2.54 times greater risk of high blood sugar *2.36 times greater risk of high blood pressure
It may also be partly responsible for the worse health of African-Americans: "We know the more skin pigment you have, the less efficient is your ability to make vitamin D in your skin. That's why most African-Americans in the United States are vitamin D deficient."
