Here is an article we wrote in 2008 that was originally published in Looking Fit magazine. Now, however, most vitamin D experts recommend ingesting a minimum of 3,600 IU's daily.
The information on RR (Relative Risk) and AR (Absolute Risk) is still current and important.
"Health statistics usually are presented in terms of relative risk (RR) for the simple reason that larger RR numbers are more likely to capture people's attention. However, showing a 100-percent increase in RR can be misleading when the "base rate" of the disease in question is left out."
Note: This is especially true for CMM articles.
"Case in point: A British report showed that oral-contraceptive pills posed a 100-percent increase in the relative risk of developing a potentially fatal blood clot. This incomplete and misleading information led to a mass panic among women who opted to stop using this form of birth control. As a result, there were 13,000 more abortions in England and Wales in the year following the report-which contained only the RR information, i.e., a 100-percent increase in the potential for developing a blood clot.
Had the public been informed that the absolute risk involved with taking the birth-control pill only increased the possibility of developing a potentially fatal blood clot from one in 7,000 women to two in 7,000 women, the public probably would not have overreacted in a such a way."
http://www.megasun.co.nz/News/News-A...nts-and-Botox/