<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/8272b7e2-1b7d-4af2-866e-d5fa411639ed/CC63AA21-9BB2-4325-A790-77DEAB6CA887/" 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.webmd.com/news/20080519/supplement-your-knowledge-of-vitamin-d?src=RSS_PUBLIC" href="http://www.webmd.com/news/20080519/supplement-your-knowledge-of-vitamin-d?src=RSS_PUBLIC" style="font-size: 11px;">www.webmd.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/news/20080519/supplement-your-knowledge-of-vitamin-d?src=RSS_PUBLIC"><P>May 19, 2008 -- The big news hit last week: Women who are deficient in vitamin D when they get <A path="/webmdhttp://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/" object_type="" keywordsetid="4559" keywordid="16991" href="http://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/" externalid="7B8361B3212040F2" directive="friendlyurl" crosslinkid="31187" chronic_id="">breast cancer</A> have a much higher chance of dying from their <A path="/webmdhttp://www.webmd.com/cancer/" object_type="" keywordsetid="4593" keywordid="17120" href="http://www.webmd.com/cancer/" externalid="9A13E96B1FF14D08" directive="friendlyurl" crosslinkid="31192" chronic_id="">cancer</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/news/20080519/supplement-your-knowledge-of-vitamin-d?src=RSS_PUBLIC"><P>Your body must have vitamin D to absorb calcium and promote bone growth. Too little vitamin D results in soft bones in children (rickets) and fragile, misshapen bones in adults (osteomalacia). You also need vitamin D for other important body functions.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/news/20080519/supplement-your-knowledge-of-vitamin-d?src=RSS_PUBLIC">vitamin D treatment might be found helpful in treating or <A href="http://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/autism-topic-overview">preventing autism</A>, autoimmune disease, cancer, chronic pain, <A href="http://www.webmd.com/depression/default.htm">depression</A>, diabetes, <A href="http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/default.htm">heart disease</A>, hyperparathyroidism, <A href="http://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/default.htm">high blood pressure</A>, flu, neuromuscular diseases, and osteoporosis</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/news/20080519/supplement-your-knowledge-of-vitamin-d?src=RSS_PUBLIC">Vitamin D deficiency has now been linked to <A path="/webmdhttp://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20080516/vitamin-d-deficiency-worsens-breast-cancer" object_type="" chronic_id="" directive="friendlyurl" href="http://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20080516/vitamin-d-deficiency-worsens-breast-cancer"> breast cancer</A>, <A path="/webmdhttp://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20070710/vitamin-d-fights-colon-cancer" object_type="" chronic_id="" directive="friendlyurl" href="http://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20070710/vitamin-d-fights-colon-cancer"> colon cancer</A>, <A path="/webmdhttp://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20051101/vitamin-d-compounds-may-fight-prostate-cancer" object_type="" chronic_id="" directive="friendlyurl" href="http://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20051101/vitamin-d-compounds-may-fight-prostate-cancer"> prostate cancer</A>, <A path="/webmdhttp://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20080107/vitamin-d-deficiency-may-hurt-heart" object_type="" chronic_id="" directive="friendlyurl" href="http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20080107/vitamin-d-deficiency-may-hurt-heart"> heart disease</A>, <A path="/webmdhttp://www.webmd.com/depression/news/20080505/depressed-older-adults-lack-vitamin-d" object_type="" chronic_id="" directive="friendlyurl" href="http://www.webmd.com/depression/news/20080505/depressed-older-adults-lack-vitamin-d"> depression</A>, <A path="/webmdhttp://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20070514/calcium-vitamin-d-slows-weight-gain" object_type="" chronic_id="" directive="friendlyurl" href="http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20070514/calcium-vitamin-d-slows-weight-gain"> weight gain</A>, and other maladies. These studies show that people with higher levels of vitamin D have a lower risk of disease, although they do not definitively prove that lack of vitamin D causes disease</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/CC63AA21-9BB2-4325-A790-77DEAB6CA887/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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