Thanks for the info. too bad I didn't know about it a year ago. -Ken Bagwell
________________________________ From: Garnet <gar...@grandecom.net> Sent: Fri, October 23, 2009 10:02:30 AM Subject: CS>Vitamin D3 cuts premature birth risk and protects newborn babies http://www.healthresearchforum.org.uk Vitamin D3 cuts premature birth risk and protects newborn babies Powerful new evidence about the way that Vitamin D3 can reduce the risk of premature births and boost the health of new-born babies has emerged from an international research conference in Bruges. Delegates were told that mothers who were given ten times the usual dose of vitamin D3 during pregnancy had their risk of premature birth reduced by half and had fewer small babies. ...... Over the two and a half years of the study thousands of tests were made and monitored by an external safety committee. Not a single test showed any adverse effect of the large dose of vitamin D3. The average level of vitamin D in the women's blood increased by about 50 per cent. ....... In addition, the normally recommended level of sun exposure does not produce enough vitamin D3, according to a separate study reported at the Bruges meeting. Sunlight is the major source of vitamin D3 and so advice on sun exposure is crucial for health. Food cannot supply more than 10% of what is needed. ...... Previous studies have already shown that infants born to vitamin D deficient mothers may be at greater risk of low birth weight, lower respiratory tract infections, asthma, and weak bones. ..... However, of particular interest is that this study considered levels less than 20ng/ml to indicate insufficiency. Vitamin D experts agree that levels less that 50ng/ml should be considered insufficient. Had the study analyzed the results using levels of less than 50ng/ml as the definition of insufficiency the results would have been much worse. Holmes VA et al. British Journal of Nutrition 2009 Sept; 102(6): 876-81 Institute of Medicine -- ------------------ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Very_Low_Dose_Naltrexone http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LDN_Information Dr Chris Steele, ITV's This Morning supporting LDN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVpjsDK0LPA -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
