I am happy to be able to announce to my readers that the National Institutes of Health are finally paying attention to vitamin D!.
The National Institutes of Health is funding a $20 million study which will be done through Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Dr JoAnne Manson and Dr Julie Buring, are the principal investigators. They will enroll 20,000 healthy older people in this study. Women over 65 in men over age 60 without a history of cancer or heart disease will be randomly assigned to four groups. Some of the groups will be taking vitamin D while others will not be taking vitamin D. I am very encouraged to see that the dose that they are giving the groups that will be taking vitamin D is 2000 international units. This is a high enough dose to be able to see some positive results.
A study that was just presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, from the Cancer Treatment Centers of America has found that vitamin D deficiency is prevalent in cancer patients regardless of their nutritional status.
In the study, 737 consecutive cancer patients, who were seen at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America between January and June of 2008, were evaluated for their nutritional status. This status was categorized as either well-nourished or moderately malnourished or severely malnourished.
The average patient was 55 years old and the most common types of cancer scene were lung and breast and colon.
A new study by Shalamar Sibley MD and colleagues from the University of Minnesota is linking an increased intake of vitamin D with the possibility of improving weight loss.
This new research was just announced at the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society. In this study, the researchers followed 38 obese women and men. It was an 11 week program in which the dieters reduced their daily diet by 750 calories. The researchers found that those with a higher original level of vitamin D lost more weight in the abdomen. In addition, they found that for every incremental increase in vitamin D, subjects lost almost an additional half pound while on their diets.
Dr. Sibley has been quoted in a press release as saying "Vitamin D deficiency is associated with obesity, but it is not clear if inadequate vitamin D causes obesity or the other way around". Dr. Sibley anticipates more clinical trials need to be done to see if vitamin D has a significant role in weight loss.
Dr Cedric Garland was kind enough to write a beautiful paragraph about my book, for its opening pages.
Now Dr. Garland and his colleagues atthe Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego have just proposed a new theory of cancer development that is based on the loss of cancer cells ability to stick together.
They have called this new model "DINOMIT". Each of the letters in the name stands for a different phase in the development of cancer.This model differs from previous models of cancer which have been based on genetic mutations as the cause of cancer.
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