10 December 2013
A new US study suggests that a high-dose vitamin D supplementation may help alleviate pain and depression in women with type 2 diabetes.
In the study, female diabetes type 2 patients with depressive symptoms and pains received a vitamin D supplement of 50,000 IU weekly for six months (1). Prior to the study, 61% of the women reported pain in their legs and feet, while 74% reported numbness and tingling in their hands, fingers and legs. At the end of the trial, the symptoms of depression had significantly improved with vitamin D supplementation. Additio- nally, they found a significant decrease in all reported areas of pain at both three and six months into the study.
The researchers concluded that vitamin D supplementation may be a promising treatment for both pain and depression in type 2 diabetes patients. People with type 2 diabetes typically experience some level of pain and depression. Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to type 2 diabetes, pain and depression, possibly ex- plaining a link between the three to some degree.
23 December 2013
A new US study reports that men with prostate cancer who ate a low-fat diet and took fish oil supplements had lower blood levels of pro-inflammatory substances and a lower cancer cell cycle progression score (a measure used to predict cancer recurrence) than men who ate a typical Western diet.
4 July 2011
Dietary supplements of calcium and vitamin D may increase the risk of developing urinary tract stones, according to a new US study.
30 March 2016
In Germany, around 340,000 people a year are diagnosed with cancer. Around 210,000 die as a consequence of the disease. Thus cancer is the second greatest killer, after heart and circulatory diseases. About a third of all cancer cases, experts believe, are due to poor eating habits (1).
