Taking vitamin D helps reduce the risk of heart attack and strokes…
“There are a whole array of studies linking increased cardiovascular risk with vitamin D deficiency,” noted Dr. James H. O’Keefe, director of preventive cardiology at the Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City. “It is associated with major risk factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes and stiffening of the left ventricle of the heart and blood vessels. Inflammation is really important for heart disease, and people with vitamin D deficiency have increased inflammation.”
O’Keefe is the lead author of a review of such studies to be published in the Dec. 9 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Experts estimate that up to half of adults and 30 percent of children and teenagers in the United States are vitamin D-deficient, according to the report.
I take substantially more vitamin D then is mentioned in this article. I also take fish oil supplements, but the best move would be to lose another 15 pounds on top of the 15 I’ve taken off from my peak weight. Unfortuantely, I’ve been in a holding pattern for about 5 months. Time to ‘get off’ the sweets. No coke with lunch today. 😉
Hat-tip to Instapundit.
