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Rep Power: 35 | Minnesota women at risk By Erica Marston , Minnesota Women's Press July 21, 2008 There’s been a flurry of recent media attention touting vitamin D as a sort of super-nutrient. So what’s the deal: Is it just media hype du jour, or should you worry about your daily intake of the sunshine vitamin? Irina Haller, M.D., thinks you ought to be concerned. “Vitamin D deficiency is linked with the development of osteoporosis and osteomalacia [softening of bones], and more recently with the increased risk of falls,” said Haller, a senior research scientist at the Division of Education and Research at the Duluth Clinic and assistant professor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth medical school. “Low vitamin D status has [also] been associated with infection and immune dysfunction …[and] recent epidemiological studies linked vitamin D deficiency with the increased risk of multiple sclerosis, hypertension, diabetes mellitus and cancer.” SOURCE LINK AND THE REST OF THE ARTICLE:
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