Vitamin D news

• 31 Jan 2012
• Pesticides linked to vitamin D deficiency
• Pesticides could be suppressing people's vitamin D levels, leading to deficiency and disease, say scientists. The warning follows the discovery that adults with high serum concentrations of organochlorine pesticides such as DDT have lower vitamin D levels.
• 26 Jan 2012
• Vitamin D deficiency in UK a 'major problem'
• A quarter of all toddlers in the UK are lacking Vitamin D, according to research. 74 per cent of parents know nothing about supplements and more than half of healthcare professionals are also unaware.
• 25 Jan 2012
• Government steps up campaign for vitamin D supplementation
• The Government has asked experts to review the dietary advice it gives on vitamin D supplementation and intends to write to all GPs to remind them that they should be advising all people in at-risk groups to take vitamin D supplements.
• 24 Jan 2012
• First complete visualization of vitamin D receptor
• For the first time, a team from the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, France, has obtained a high-resolution, full 3D image of a small but vital molecule locked up within our cells: the vitamin D receptor (VDR).
• 17 Jan 2012
• Researchers find vitamin D protects against liver diseases
• Two Israeli research teams have separately become the first to discover two different benefits from vitamin D against common liver diseases - hepatitis C and cirrhosis.