Vitamin D: enough already?

Vitamin D: enough already?

Happiness: enough already.

The plural of anecdote is not data, as scientists will tell you, but consider these snapshots of the emerging happiness debate anyway: Lately, Jerome Wakefield's students have been coming up to him after they break up with a boyfriend or girlfriend, and not because they want him to recommend a therapist. Wakefield, a professor at New York University, coauthored the 2007 book "The Loss of Sadnes...

Folate fortification: enough already?1,2

The Food and Drug Administration mandated the folate fortification of grain products in the United States by January 1998. The primary driving force behind this policy was the recognition that periconceptional folate supplementation in addition to normal dietary folate intake significantly reduced the incidence of neural tube defects (NTDs), one of the most common birth defects (1, 2). Food for...

How Much Vitamin D Is Enough?

of alendronate and vitamin D3 on fractional calcium absorption in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial in postmenopausal osteoporotic women. the role of vitamin D and calcium in osteoporosis management: an expert roundtable discussion. calcium absorption in severe vitamin D deficiency. The effect of vitamin D on calcium absorption in older women. A, et al. Vitamin D supplementat...

Vitamin D deficiency following Billroth II surgery - How much vitamin D is enough?: a case report

BACKGROUND Vitamin D deficiency with all its consequences is a global health problem. CASE PRESENTATION We reported a 62-year-old Caucasian woman with alcohol-related liver cirrhosis (Child class A) and a medical history of Billroth II surgery. Although she has taken an oral dose of 16 800 IU vitamin D daily for six weeks to normalise her 25-hydroxyvitamin D level the raise was only moderate....