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D-Feat Breast Cancer
With Vitamin D Awareness
Why Natural Levels of "The Sunshine Vitamin"
Lower Your Risk of Breast Cancer
 Vitamin
D isn't really a vitamin - it is a hormone your body
produces naturally and most effectively when your
skin is exposed to UVB in sunlight. That energy
starts a chemical reaction in your skin which
produces a form of vitamin D that your bloodstream
carries to the rest of your body to be used.
For
more than a century scientists only knew that modest
levels of vitamin D were necessary for bone health.
Vitamin D helps your body process calcium - the main
building block for bones. No one knew that it
actually does much more than this.
For
50 years scientists have known that most forms of
cancer were much less common in sunny areas of the
world. But no one knew why.
In
the late 1990s the story started to come into focus
for the first time. That's when scientists first
discovered a new role for vitamin D:
It controls and regulates cell growth in most
systems in the body. But to perform this
function people needed much higher vitamin D levels
than had always been recommended - what we now call
"Natural Vitamin D Levels." Without artificial
supplements, it now appears the new vitamin D levels
are only naturally possible with regular exposure to
UVB in sunlight.
That
discovery in the late 1990s spawned hundreds of
subsequent studies into vitamin D and reduced cancer
risk - including breast cancer. The research has
boomed in the past three years:
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A 2006 paper published in Anticancer Research
established that women with higher vitamin D
levels are 50-70 percent less likely to develop
breast cancer.
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A 2007 study in the American Journal of
Epidemiology reported that women with high sun
exposure levels - the most natural and abundant
source of vitamin D - had half the risk of
developing advanced breast cancer.
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A 2007 paper in the American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition showed that women with high vitamin D
levels have up to a 77 percent reduction in
overall cancer risk - including breast cancer.
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A 2002 paper in Occupational and Environmental
Medicine established that women who received
regular sun exposure were less likely to die
from breast cancer.
"D-Feat
Breast Cancer" by learning more about Vitamin D and
by
having your vitamin D blood levels checked with
a simple test. |
