<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/179800da-af44-4783-bfea-b27ef05cc3bf/ABBCC188-4D6F-4488-A29C-29E23FFC9F51/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/28/health/conversation-with-michael-holick-shining-light-health-benefits-vitamin-d.html?sec=health#" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/28/health/conversation-with-michael-holick-shining-light-health-benefits-vitamin-d.html?sec=health#" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/28/health/conversation-with-michael-holick-shining-light-health-benefits-vitamin-d.html?sec=health#"><P>Q. Would you describe vitamin D as an underrated vitamin?</p> <P>A. I would say vitamin D has been taken for granted and, as a result, has been ignored.</p> <P>However, this vitamin is critically important for maintaining normal calcium in the blood and for bone health. The vitamin plays a crucial role in most metabolic functions and also, muscle, cardiac and neurological functions. Without enough of it, a child can get rickets, and an adult might suffer bone softening, a mineralization defect. Vitamin D deficiency can precipitate and exacerbate osteoporosis.</p> <P>Moreover, there is evidence that vitamin D may have subtle but profound effects on regulating cell growth and on our cardiovascular and immune systems. There is a strong association of sunlight exposure and increased blood levels of vitamin D with a decreased risk of many common cancers: colon, breast, prostate, ovarian.</p> <P>Additionally, vitamin D deficiency has been associated with an increased risk for Type 1 diabetes. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/ABBCC188-4D6F-4488-A29C-29E23FFC9F51/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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