Posted at: 11/05/2009 1:53 PM
By: Benita Zahn

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Vitamin D

It seems every time you turn around there's another vitamin or supplement touted as the cure all for everything. Nowadays it's Vitamin D. But this time may be the real thing. The research is exciting - there's even work looking at the role vitamin D plays with preventing breast, colon and prostate cancer.

Vitamin D is 'made' when we're exposed to the sun. But that's a problem in northern climates like ours - we can't get a good 10 minutes of face and arm exposure. Add to that all the warnings about not getting too much sun exposure. Vitamin D is found in fortified foods like milk .. it's also found in fatty fish like tuna and yes, cod liver oil (ich - just the sound of it is a turn off for me .. sorry ) .. There are supplements. But it's not recommended to simply crank up the dosage if you don't know if you're deficient or how deficient.

I realize all this could be a grand plan by the testing (blood) companies to make a little extra moola - but really now ..

Anyway, tonight .. Thursday @ 8pm ( repeat Sunday at midnight) on WMHT . .join me for HEALTH LINK ..talking with a couple of local doctors and getting the skinny on vitamin D.