Could Vitamins Do More Harm Than Good?
Coverage from NPR, featuring Walter Willett
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Boosting vitamin D: Not enough or too much?
Coverage from The Forum at HSPH, featuring Walter Willett
Comment on the IOM Vitamin D and Calcium Recommendations
For Adult Bone Health, Too Low on Vitamin D—and Too Generous on Calcium By Heike Bischoff-Ferrari and Walter Willett Vitamin D and Bone Health Most evidence on vitamin D and calcium is available for bone health. Thus the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) panel released on November 30, 2010 (1) are largely based … Continue reading “Comment on the IOM Vitamin D and Calcium Recommendations”
How much vitamin D? Why many experts take issue with the IOM’s new recommendations
Coverage from The Huffington Post, featuring Walter Willett
More? Or Less? Experts Disagree About How Much Vitamin D and Calcium You Should Get
Coverage from The Boston Globe, featuring Walter Willett
Calcium, Vitamin D changes suggested
Coverage from The Boston Globe, featuring Walter Willett
What do you lack? Probably vitamin D
Coverage from The New York Times, featuring Edward Giovannucci
Ask the expert: Vitamin D and chronic disease
The Expert: Dr. Edward Giovannucci Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health 1. There’s been a lot of news lately about vitamin D’s role in prevention of cancer, heart disease, and other chronic diseases. What do we know today—and what questions remain? Vitamin D has a well-established role … Continue reading “Ask the expert: Vitamin D and chronic disease”
Vitamin D, Calcium and Health
Clearing up confusion around the vitamin supplement findings from the Women’s Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial Many people were surprised and confused by the report from the Women’s Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial (WHI) that vitamin D supplements had no apparent benefit for hip fracture or colon cancer risks.(1) In this study, over 36,000 women … Continue reading “Vitamin D, Calcium and Health”
Seaweed
Seaweed may bring to mind the slippery green, red, and brown plants that curl around your toes when walking in the ocean, or mounds of dried tangles washed up on shore. It may be less recognized as an aquatic food on your dinner plate. But certain types of “seaweed” (the common name for countless species … Continue reading “Seaweed”