" In a study of 1,739 Boston-area residents reported last month, rates of heart attack, stroke and heart failure were about 50 percent higher in those with low levels of vitamin D.In addition to strengthening bones, muscles and joints, high vitamin D levels have been linked with lower rates of colon, prostate, breast, esophageal and pancreatic cancer.Harvard scientists found that high levels of vitamin D reduced children's odds of developing asthma, while researchers in Pittsburgh reported that pregnant women with low vitamin D had greater risk of preeclampsia, a dangerous form of high blood pressure.Vitamin D also appears to be one of the reasons multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases are twice as common in Northern versus Southern states. Washington's rate of MS, which causes nerve damage, is one of the highest in the nation."
Of course a trip to Mexico would be great too....!
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