Originally posted by starstuck
Take one cap of cod liver oil per day along with your calcium supplement
and don't worry !
Read that last part again.
"American Cancer Society,doesn't currently recommend taking vitamin or mineral supplements to reduce cancer risk."
The reason being that members of the ACS are pharmaceutical companies who benefit from high cancer rates.It is a huge industry.Nearly everyone of the
500000 who die from cancer every year in the USA gets chemo.Even at a lowly $50000 treatment cost per patient this is big bucks.
$25 billion.
Even a small reduction in people getting cancer would mean a loss of big bucks.
The second and third studies by Harvard and Boston points in the same direction.Taking supplements reduces cancer risk.
i quote 2 further studies:-
The findings are published in the June edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition .
In May, Harvard Medical School researchers reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine that high intakes of vitamin D and calcium cut the risk of
breast cancer by nearly one-third in premenopausal women, but not women past menopause.
Dr. Michael Holick, professor of medicine, physiology and biophysics at the Boston University School of Medicine and a long-time vitamin D researcher,
said the Lappe study adds to growing evidence of the health and disease-fighting effects of vitamin D.
"It's very clear the data are significant," he said of the Lappe study.
Vitamin D is thought to act through the immune system to help prevent the formation of abnormal cells, Lappe said.
To date, both Lappe and Holick said, high intake of vitamin D has been found to reduce the risk of many forms of cancer as well as type 1 diabetes,
multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and high blood pressure.
Discuss vitamin D intake with your doctor. And be aware that the Institute of Medicine has declared that 2,000 IUs is the upper tolerable, or safe,
level for most people. For babies up to 1 year old, the limit is 1,000 IUs, McCullough said.
Vitamin D, which is important for strong bones, is found in salmon and other fish, and fortified milk and fortified cereals, among other foods.
The point is that RDA is not enough at 200 IU.
It needs to be 1100 to 1500 IU daily.
Read the full report here :-
www.hon.ch...
Considering that 500000 AMERICANS die from cancer every year it is shocking that this has not been been broadcast widely.
[edit on 28-12-2007 by esecallum]
