Nutrition quiz: Vitamin E (Red Bluff Daily News) Have you given much thought to vitamin E? Didn't think so. Not to worry: Despite the average person's indifference, this potent antioxidant continues its valiant struggle against those harmful free radicals. [News Source]

Nutrition quiz: Vitamin E (Red Bluff Daily News) Have you given much thought to vitamin E? Didn't think so. Not to worry: Despite the average person's indifference, this potent antioxidant continues its valiant struggle against those harmful free radicals. [News Source]

Vitamin D Crucial To Activating Immune Defenses (Medical News Today) Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have discovered that Vitamin D is crucial to activating our immune defenses and that without sufficient intake of the vitamin, the killer cells of the immune system - T cells - will not be able to react to and fight off serious infections in the body. For T cells to detect and kill foreign pathogens such as clumps of bacteria or viruses, the cells must ... [News Source]

Vitamin D Crucial To Activating Immune Defenses (Medical News Today) Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have discovered that Vitamin D is crucial to activating our immune defenses and that without sufficient intake of the vitamin, the killer cells of the immune system - T cells - will not be able to react to and fight off serious infections in the body. For T cells to detect and kill foreign pathogens such as clumps of bacteria or viruses, the cells must ... [News Source]

Low Levels Of Vitamin D Linked To Muscle Fat, Decreased Strength In Young People (Medical News Today) There's an epidemic in progress, and it has nothing to do with the flu. A ground-breaking study published in the March 2010 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found an astonishing 59 per cent of study subjects had too little Vitamin D in their blood. Nearly a quarter of the group had serious deficiencies (less than 20 ng/ml) of this important vitamin. Since Vitamin D insufficiency ... [News Source]

Low Levels Of Vitamin D Linked To Muscle Fat, Decreased Strength In Young People (Medical News Today) There's an epidemic in progress, and it has nothing to do with the flu. A ground-breaking study published in the March 2010 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found an astonishing 59 per cent of study subjects had too little Vitamin D in their blood. Nearly a quarter of the group had serious deficiencies (less than 20 ng/ml) of this important vitamin. Since Vitamin D insufficiency ... [News Source]

Why Vitamin D Is Essential (redOrbit) Image 1: T lymphoycte cell (small cell with red surface) scanning another cell for the presence of foreign molecules. Credit: Professor Carsten GeislerImage 2: When the naïve T cell recognizes foreign molecules with its T cell receptor (TCR) it sends activation signals (1) to the VDR gene. The VDR gene now starts the production of VDR (2). VDR binds vitamin D in the T cell (3) and becomes ... [News Source]

Why Vitamin D Is Essential (redOrbit) Image 1: T lymphoycte cell (small cell with red surface) scanning another cell for the presence of foreign molecules. Credit: Professor Carsten GeislerImage 2: When the naïve T cell recognizes foreign molecules with its T cell receptor (TCR) it sends activation signals (1) to the VDR gene. The VDR gene now starts the production of VDR (2). VDR binds vitamin D in the T cell (3) and becomes ... [News Source]

Vitamin D may play key role in immune system activation (Nutraingredients.com) “Scientists have known for a long time that vitamin D is important for calcium absorption and the vitamin has also been implicated in diseases such as cancer and multiple sclerosis, but what we didn't realize is how crucial vitamin D is for actually activating the immune system – which we know now,” said scientists from the University of Copenhagen. [News Source]

Vitamin D may play key role in immune system activation (Nutraingredients.com) “Scientists have known for a long time that vitamin D is important for calcium absorption and the vitamin has also been implicated in diseases such as cancer and multiple sclerosis, but what we didn't realize is how crucial vitamin D is for actually activating the immune system – which we know now,” said scientists from the University of Copenhagen. [News Source]

Vitamin plays ‘crucial’ immune system role (Yorkshire Post) Vitamin D plays a key role in fighting infection by "priming" one of the most important weapons in the body's immune arsenal, research has shown. [News Source]

Vitamin D deficiency leads to obesity, stunts growth (MalaysiaNews.net) Vitamin D deficiency could be an unwitting invitation to obesity, weight gain or stunted growth among girls, says a new study. [News Source]