Insufficient Sunlight Can Place you in Danger of Developing Type Two Diabetes

Wed, 27 Jul 2011
Insufficient vitamin D due to a lack of sunlight is placing many millions of people in danger of developing type 2 diabetes.

Australian researchers have discovered, in a forerunning study, the biggest of its kind, that individuals who have high levels of vitamin D are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes.

A study co-author, Dr Ken Sikaris, based in Melbourne, declared that this finding is crucial in the prevention of this kind of diabetes.

Prior research had already linked vitamin D deficiency to 600,000 cases of cancer across the world every year, especially in northern Europe. The vitamin is also considered to reduce the likelihood of developing bowel cancer by 40 per cent and halves the risk of women developing breast cancer .

Research has also intimated that those who have high levels of vitamin D are 50 per cent less likely to develop diabetes or heart disease.

We do obtain some vitamin D from foods like eggs, milk and fatty fish, however, 90 per cent is generated in the skin by the sun's ultraviolet light.

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