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The Importance of getting enough Vitamin D this Christmas

December 22, 2008 By 4 Comments
A dim snowy field at Christmas time.

Vitamins are important nutrients that help your body function properly.  They all have different roles to play and a deficiency of any one vitamin can lead to a number of nasty side effects.  Whilst they are all equally important, vitamin D is perhaps even more important over Christmas.  In this article I will be discussing why vitamin D is particularly important over the festive period and how you can make sure that you get enough. As I discussed in my previous article on vitamin D it is one of the fat soluble vitamins.  The main role of vitamin D is to help the body absorb calcium and … [Read more...]

Vitamin D Explained

October 13, 2008 By 5 Comments
The sun shining on a beach

Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin and is often known as the sunshine vitamin because sunlight can prompt the body to produce it.  Early signs of the benefits of vitamin D were discovered in the early nineteenth century when researchers suggested that sunbathing and cod liver oil could cure rickets (softening of the bones in children and young animals which is now known to be caused by vitamin D deficiency).  Vitamin D was officially discovered in 1919 when Edward Mellanby raised a group of dogs on nothing but porridge and also kept them inside (unintentionally) meaning they had no exposure … [Read more...]