D-Feat Breast Cancer With Vitamin D Research and Awareness

D-Feat Breast Cancer fund-raising initiative is designed to empower communities to support and fund research and awareness of the most powerful natural prevention for breast cancer – vitamin D. Dollars raised will fund research and awareness of Vitamin D’s role in breast cancer prevention by funding organizations, independent researchers, and other scientific groups focused on vitamin D and breast cancer.

The D-Feat program was developed in 2007 as the first breast cancer initiative focused solely on natural vitamin D. This effort is based on literally hundreds of studies for more than 30 years that suggest women with adequate blood levels of vitamin D have a significantly lower incidence of breast cancer. Consider:

1. 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.
   

1. 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.
   

1. 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.
   

1. That discovery in the late 1990s spawned hundreds of subsequent studies into vitamin D and reduced cancer risk - including breast cancer. Here are just a few examples:
   

1. •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.
   

2. •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.
   

3. •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.
   

4. •A 2002 paper in Occupational and Environmental Medicine established that women who received regular sun exposure were less likely to die from breast cancer.
   

1. "D-Feat Breast Cancer" by learning more about Vitamin D and by having your vitamin D blood levels checked with a simple test.