New Studies of Vitamin D Deficiency Symptoms in 2013

Recently, there were some studies by some scientists in the different countries for vitamin D deficiency symptoms. The results were quite surprising.

Scientists at University of Oslo, Norway, found that vitamin D deficiency likely responsible to the flu epidemic in Netherlands last week. According to the study, lack of UV solar radiation exposure due to this winter months drops the level of body's vitamin D, which is simultaneously weaken the body immune system.

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The other research claimed that vitamin D deficiency has contributed to the premenopausal breast cancer. In that study, the team from UC San Diego, USA, led by Professor Cedric Garland, surprisingly found that half of 1,200 samples of women serum which had low vitamin D level had the risk of breast cancer three times higher than women in high vitamin D group.

The hottest news showed by a study that vitamin D deficiency related to depression or mental health. Study took place in different countries by different researchers in different occasions. Jane Maddock from the UCL Institute of Child Health, UK, examined data from the 7,401 people of the 1958 British birth group. Study used the questionnaires to explicate the behaviors of whom at 45 years-old. The results indicated that 45 years-old people with high level of vitamin D, at least 75 nmol/l, had a good control of their panic and lower risk of depression behavior.

Smaller study held by Sonal Pathak, MD., endocrinologist at Bay Health Endocrinology in Dover, Del. She studied three women who have vitamin D deficiency, who also in medication of underactive thyroid gland. Their vitamin D levels ranged from 8.9 to 14.5 ng/mL, while the normal levels are above 30 ng/mL, according to guidelines of The Endocrine Society. The women got vitamin D therapy for 8 to 12 weeks, and improved the level to 32 to 38 ng/mL. That was impressive.

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Terrible Tumor Grows Out of The Cigarettes

UK Department of Health has tried many ways to reduce the number of deaths caused by smoking, including through campaigns and advertising. Most recently, the British government released an ad showing a terrible tumor grows in cigarette. WOW!!

UK Department of Health has spent around £2,7 million for this catchy ad to run online, on television and billboard for nine weeks.

The ad illustrates that there is terrible tumor growing on cigarette. The government hope that millions of Britons willing to quit smoking after seeing this ad 

The ad was launched in response to statistics that show more than a third of smokers in UK still assume that the health risks of smoking are greatly exaggerated.

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Smoking is still the biggest cause of early death, which leads to more than 100,000 deaths in the UK every year.

According to the Department of Health, this new campaign will focus on the fact that smoking 15 cigarettes per day can cause cell mutations, which can lead to tumors and cancer.

"This is a hard-hitting campaign to get at the hidden harms of smoking. People will see a man smoking and then a cancer growing out of the cigarette. That is what happens in people's bodies." Said Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, as reported by Dailymail, Friday (28/12/2012).

Prof. Davies said that one-in-two smokers die from smoking, mostly from cancer. According to him, people do not personalize the harms of smoking and do not understand what was going on in their bodies.

"This will show them," added Prof. Davies.

This is not the first time for UK Department of Health release an anti-smoking ad graphically. Earlier in 2004, they released a graphic ad showed fatty deposits being squeezed from a smoker's arteries and fat dripping from the tip of cigarettes.

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