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Vitamin D For Dummies
By: Alan L. RubineBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Your plain-English guide to the many benefits of Vitamin D
Vitamin D is in the news every day, as new tests and studies reveal encouraging information about its power in maintaining good health and preventing major illnesses. No longer thought to just play a role in calcium intake and bone growth, Vitamin D has a host of other functions in the body, playing a role in prevention of serious diseases, including cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, as well as boosting immunity, improving athletic performance, losing weight, and more.
This hands-on, plain-English guide is perfect for anyone looking for helpful advice and information on the "nutrient of the decade." Coverage of how Vitamin D works, and how much is needed for disease prevention How and where to get sufficient amounts of the right kind of Vitamin D – from both your diet and nutritional supplements The best ways to maintain healthy levels of Vitamin D
If you're looking to learn more about the many benefits Vitamin D can have on you and your family, you'll find everything you need right here.
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| Title of eBook: Vitamin D For Dummies | |
| Release Date: 05-12-2011 | |
| Publisher: For Dummies |
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Vitamin D For Dummies
Chapter One
The Essentials of Vitamin D
In This Chapter
* Getting the lowdown on vitamin D
* Making the connection between vitamin D and your health
* Exploring the origins of vitamin D
* Reaping the medical benefits of vitamin D
You think you have enough vitamin D in your body? You're in for a surprise. You think you know what vitamin D does for you? You're in for a shock. Many people don't have enough vitamin D, and almost nobody knows all that it might do for you. In fact, even I don't know everything it does for you because scientists are discovering new possible roles for it almost daily.
If vitamin D were a house, it might be the most desirable house on the block. It's turning out to provide possible benefits for your body that you could never have imagined. In this chapter, you discover what vitamin D is and what it does for you.
Understanding What Vitamin D Is and How It Works
When is a vitamin not a vitamin? When it's vitamin D.
A vitamin is defined as an essential nutrient that a living being must acquire in tiny amounts from the diet. A vitamin is a chemical that's essential for your body but that your body can't make; it must be ingested. By this definition, vitamin D isn't a vitamin at all. Consider this — your skin can make vitamin D when it's exposed to sunlight, so your body doesn't have to acquire it from food.
If vitamin D isn't really a vitamin, what is it? It becomes a hormone called calcitriol (active vitamin D) after your body metabolizes it. A hormone is a chemical in your body that regulates your physiology. But old nam
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