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Magnesium supplements may decrease diabetes risk
11 January 2011
Daily supplements of magnesium may improve insulin sensitivity and help reduce the risk of diabetes in overweight people, a new German study suggests.
23 January 2012
A new study from Japan suggests that high blood levels of vitamin D may lower the colorectal cancer risk by 36%.
In this observational study, vitamin D blood levels and daily calcium intakes were analyzed in 737 people with colorectal cancer and 703 healthy, cancer-free individuals (1). The study results showed that participants with the highest average levels of 25(OH)D (32 ng/mL) had a 36% lower risk of colorectal cancer than people with the lowest average levels (16 ng/mL). High calcium intakes (590 mg/day) were also associated with a 37% lower risk of cancer than people with the lowest average intakes (542 mg/day).
The researchers concluded that these results would underline the importance of maintaining an optimal vitamin D status as a preventitive measure against colorectal cancer, at least in its early stages. Numerous studies have already suggested associations between vitamin D and lower risks of certain cancers. In 2011, scientists conducted a meta-analysis of nine observational studies and concluded that for every 10 nano-grams per milliliter-increase in levels of vitamin D (25-hydroxyvitamin D), the associated risk of colorectal cancer decreased by 15% (2). No association was observed between vitamin D levels and the risk of breast or prostate cancer.
11 January 2011
Daily supplements of magnesium may improve insulin sensitivity and help reduce the risk of diabetes in overweight people, a new German study suggests.
1 April 2016
Professor Cashman is the joint coordinator of the EU-funded ODIN project. He is lead author of a new paper that the authors say provides “firm evidence” of the significant risk that vitamin D deficiency poses to public health in the EU. They found that 13% of the cohort of 55,844 individuals drawn from across Europe had serum vitamin D levels below 30 nmol/L.
24 May 2013
A new study reports that blood vitamin D concentrations of people living in São Paulo, Brazil, are good among the young and active during the summer, but not so in the winter, and that the elderly have poor levels year round.