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Old March 20th 10, 07:02 PM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids.health,sci.med,sci.med.nutrition
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Default Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims

Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims
March 15, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7061778.ece

The risk of children suffering from flu can be halved if they take vitamin
D, doctors in Japan have found. The finding has implications for flu
epidemics since vitamin D, which is naturally produced by the human body
when exposed to direct sunlight, has no significant side effects, costs
little and can be several times more effective than anti-viral drugs or
vaccine.

Only one in ten children, aged six to 15 years, taking the sunshine vitamin
in a clinical trial came down with flu compared with one in five given a
dummy tablet. Mitsuyoshi Urashima, the Japanese doctor who led the trial,
told The Times that vitamin D was more effective than vaccines in preventing
flu.

Vitamin D was found to be even more effective when the comparison left out
children who were already given extra vitamin D by their parents, outside
the trial. Taking the sunshine vitamin was then shown to reduce the risk of
flu to a third of what it would otherwise be.

Altogether 354 children took part in the trial, which took place during the
winter of 2008-09, before the swine flu epidemic. Vitamin D was found to
protect against influenza A, which caused last year's epidemic, but not
against the less common influenza B.

The trial, which was double blind, randomised, and fully controlled
scientifically, was conducted by doctors and scientists from Jikei
University School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan.

The children were given a daily dose of 1200 IUs (international units) of
vitamin D over a period of three months. In the first month children in the
group taking the vitamin became ill just as often as those taking the dummy
tablet. But by the second month, when the vitamin level in the children's
blood was higher, the advantage of the vitamin was clear.

The Japanese scientists, writing in the American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition, say that the anti-viral drugs zanamivir and oseltamivir reduce
risk of flu infection by 8 per cent in children who have been exposed to
infection, compared with a 50 per cent or greater reduction with vitamin D.

Anti-virals are also too expensive, and possibly too toxic, to be given to
the population as a whole whereas vitamin D has additional benefits. The
sunshine vitamin not only prevents bone fractures but is also believed to
reduce risks of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other illness, including
various bacterial as well as viral infections.

The Japanese finding supports a theory that low blood levels of the sunshine
vitamin occurring in winter explain why flu epidemics generally peak between
December and March.

Vitamin D activates the innate immune system, enabling the body to produce
several proteins such as defensin and cathelicidin which trigger cell
activity and disable viruses.

Dr Urashima said: "Vitamin D and vaccine work by quite different mechanisms.
Vitamin D enhances innate immunity while vaccine enhances acquired immunity.
So we do not have to select only one way of prevention, rather we should do
both ways, I think."

Dr John Oxford, professor of virology at Queen Mary School of Medicine,
London, said: "This is a timely study. It will be noticed by scientists. It
fits in with the seasonal pattern of flu. There is an increasing background
of solid science that makes the vitamin D story credible. But this study
needs to be replicated. If it is confirmed we might think of giving vitamin
D at the same time as we vaccinate."


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Old March 22nd 10, 05:26 AM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids.health,sci.med,sci.med.nutrition
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Default Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims

john wrote:
Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims
March 15, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7061778.ece

Thanks for the link.
Here is the link to the study abstract.
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abst...n.2009.29094v1

Here is the Reuters story on the study.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62I3MK20100319

Yahoo carries the Reuters report.
http://health.yahoo.com/news/reuters...ind_study.html

Other than Yahoo no major media in the USA carries this Reuters story
or reports on their own. Too early?
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Old March 22nd 10, 06:47 AM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids.health,sci.med,sci.med.nutrition
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Default Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims

"john" wrote in message
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Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims
March 15, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7061778.ece

The risk of children suffering from flu can be halved if they take vitamin
D, doctors in Japan have found. The finding has implications for flu
epidemics since vitamin D, which is naturally produced by the human body
when exposed to direct sunlight, has no significant side effects, costs
little and can be several times more effective than anti-viral drugs or
vaccine.


Although vitamin D toxicity is rare even among people who take
supplements, you may be at greater risk if you have health problems, such as
liver
or kidney conditions, or if you take thiazide-type diuretics.
The main consequence of vitamin D toxicity is a buildup of calcium in
your blood (hypercalcemia), causing symptoms such as:


a.. Nausea
b.. Vomiting
c.. Poor appetite
d.. Constipation
e.. Weakness
f.. Confusion
g.. Heart rhythm abnormalities
h.. Kidney stones

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Old March 22nd 10, 01:32 PM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids.health,sci.med,sci.med.nutrition
Lefty[_3_]
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Default Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims

Peter B. wrote:
"john" wrote in message
...
Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims
March 15, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7061778.ece

The risk of children suffering from flu can be halved if they take
vitamin D, doctors in Japan have found. The finding has implications
for flu epidemics since vitamin D, which is naturally produced by the
human body when exposed to direct sunlight, has no significant side
effects, costs little and can be several times more effective than
anti-viral drugs or vaccine.


Although vitamin D toxicity is rare even among people who take
supplements, you may be at greater risk if you have health problems,
such as liver
or kidney conditions, or if you take thiazide-type diuretics.
The main consequence of vitamin D toxicity is a buildup of calcium in
your blood (hypercalcemia), causing symptoms such as:


a.. Nausea
b.. Vomiting
c.. Poor appetite
d.. Constipation
e.. Weakness
f.. Confusion
g.. Heart rhythm abnormalities
h.. Kidney stones

"RARE"
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Old March 22nd 10, 06:05 PM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids.health,sci.med,sci.med.nutrition
Peter B.[_2_]
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Default Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims

"Lefty" wrote in message
...
Peter B. wrote:
"john" wrote in message
...
Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims
March 15, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7061778.ece

The risk of children suffering from flu can be halved if they take
vitamin D, doctors in Japan have found. The finding has implications for
flu epidemics since vitamin D, which is naturally produced by the human
body when exposed to direct sunlight, has no significant side effects,
costs little and can be several times more effective than anti-viral
drugs or vaccine.


Although vitamin D toxicity is rare even among people who take
supplements, you may be at greater risk if you have health problems, such
as liver
or kidney conditions, or if you take thiazide-type diuretics.
The main consequence of vitamin D toxicity is a buildup of calcium in
your blood (hypercalcemia), causing symptoms such as:


a.. Nausea
b.. Vomiting
c.. Poor appetite
d.. Constipation
e.. Weakness
f.. Confusion
g.. Heart rhythm abnormalities
h.. Kidney stones

"RARE"


Not "rare", but infrequent like the article says.

Funny, freaks think infrequent sides of Vaccines are super bad, but they
make excuses for vitamins.

Why not use your real name here? It has already been posted by Profiler and
confirmed by others, including me. (sorry, I've already forgotten what it
is, something related to a ghost?)

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Old March 22nd 10, 06:30 PM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids.health,sci.med,sci.med.nutrition
Lefty[_3_]
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Default Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims

Peter B. wrote:
"Lefty" wrote in message
...
Peter B. wrote:
"john" wrote in message
...
Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims
March 15, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7061778.ece

The risk of children suffering from flu can be halved if they take
vitamin D, doctors in Japan have found. The finding has implications
for flu epidemics since vitamin D, which is naturally produced by
the human body when exposed to direct sunlight, has no significant
side effects, costs little and can be several times more effective
than anti-viral drugs or vaccine.


Although vitamin D toxicity is rare even among people who take
supplements, you may be at greater risk if you have health problems,
such as liver
or kidney conditions, or if you take thiazide-type diuretics.
The main consequence of vitamin D toxicity is a buildup of calcium in
your blood (hypercalcemia), causing symptoms such as:


a.. Nausea
b.. Vomiting
c.. Poor appetite
d.. Constipation
e.. Weakness
f.. Confusion
g.. Heart rhythm abnormalities
h.. Kidney stones

"RARE"


Not "rare", but infrequent like the article says.

Funny, freaks think infrequent sides of Vaccines are super bad, but they
make excuses for vitamins.

Why not use your real name here? It has already been posted by Profiler
and confirmed by others, including me. (sorry, I've already forgotten
what it is, something related to a ghost?)

You may believe what ever you wish. How about you post the numbers of
D injury, and compare them with the numbers of vac or drug injury? Then
we can discuss things in a rational manner.
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Old March 24th 10, 08:38 AM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids.health,sci.med,sci.med.nutrition
Peter B.[_2_]
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Default Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims

"Lefty" wrote in message
...
Peter B. wrote:
"Lefty" wrote in message
...
Peter B. wrote:
"john" wrote in message
...
Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims
March 15, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7061778.ece

The risk of children suffering from flu can be halved if they take
vitamin D, doctors in Japan have found. The finding has implications
for flu epidemics since vitamin D, which is naturally produced by the
human body when exposed to direct sunlight, has no significant side
effects, costs little and can be several times more effective than
anti-viral drugs or vaccine.


Although vitamin D toxicity is rare even among people who take
supplements, you may be at greater risk if you have health problems,
such as liver
or kidney conditions, or if you take thiazide-type diuretics.
The main consequence of vitamin D toxicity is a buildup of calcium in
your blood (hypercalcemia), causing symptoms such as:


a.. Nausea
b.. Vomiting
c.. Poor appetite
d.. Constipation
e.. Weakness
f.. Confusion
g.. Heart rhythm abnormalities
h.. Kidney stones

"RARE"


Not "rare", but infrequent like the article says.

Funny, freaks think infrequent sides of Vaccines are super bad, but they
make excuses for vitamins.

Why not use your real name here? It has already been posted by Profiler
and confirmed by others, including me. (sorry, I've already forgotten
what it is, something related to a ghost?)

You may believe what ever you wish. How about you post the numbers of D
injury, and compare them with the numbers of vac or drug injury? Then we
can discuss things in a rational manner.


You are not capable of that as you have shown numerous times.

The ghostbuster told us all about you.

 




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