Comment: Most North American Men are not getting enough Vitamin D as well. As a culture, we've become sun-phobic. We may think that if a lot is bad (think skin cancer) than none is good. Not true. Some daily sun is necessary to make Vitamin D. Vitamin D, in addition to it's role in preventing bone loss problems, is also implicated in multiple sclerosis and some forms of cancer. During the winter, it's also a really great idea to take extra vitamin D in the form of clean cod liver oil capsules.
Vitamin D inadequacy may be overlooked by clinicans thus leading to inadequate vitamin D supplementation in patients with osteoporosis, according to new research issued today at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) Fourteenth Annual Meeting and Clinical Congress.
A study of 1,554 postmenopausal women showed that 52% of these women had suboptimal vitamin D concentrations. Most study participants were healthy, ambulatory, community-dwelling, white women who were well educated. These results underscore a need for improved physician and patient education regarding optimization of vitamin D status in the care of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis.
North American women receiving inadequate vitamin D
