Medical researchers are beginning to rave about the benefits of vitamin D supplementation, and to stress that most Americans don’t get enough of. It’s a vitamin that everyone of us needs in abundance, and we can get it from both our diet and the sun, but it seems that most of us are not getting enough of it from these two sources. For one thing, many people are staying out of the sun, or slathering themselves up with sunscreens that block absorption of the vitamin D in the sun’s rays. Now doctors fear that they may have overstressed the risk of skin cancer from the sun, and are advising people to get more sun to get the benefits of vitamin D.
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The benefits of vitamin C are increasingly the subject of many different research projects by medical experts and others who want to find out just what all this seeming wonder vitamin can do. Vitamin C has been known to be necessary to good health for centuries, but there have been a lot of fantastic claims made for it in the last fifty years by alternative health writers and heterodox medical experts. One of the most famous advocates of the benefits of Vitamin C was the late Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Linus Pauling. In his later years, he practically turned into an evangelist for vitamin C.
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