Showing posts with label fat and vitamin D3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fat and vitamin D3. Show all posts
How to Get Vitamin D Without the Sun
'Certainly, it’s best to get your Vitamin D from the sun. It’s the most natural approach. However, there are other ways if needed. Here’s a guide to those sources, and how to convert IUs to milligrams.'
'While it’s best to obtain your Vitamin D3 by sun exposure, nowadays it simply isn’t practical for most of us to spend that much time outside. There’s no need to worry, though. Two good options for getting the D3 you need are readily available. One is through suntanning booths and beds, and the other is via supplements.
First, though, let’s take a look at what foods provide D3. Although there’s a diet that can supply adequate D3, it isn’t one that’s readily available to most people, and frankly, unless you’ve grown up with it, the chances are you’ll find it less than appetizing. It’s virtually all meat and animal fat, and much is eaten raw. D3 and other vitamins are readily available in the flesh, organs, and blubber of far north animals, unlike those of lower latitudes. While this diet isn’t readily available to most people, or desirable, it does demonstrate that D3 can be obtained through diet.'
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Vitamin D ‘Fails’ to Lower Cholesterol: So?
A completely useless, frankly stupid, study shows that Vitamin D ‘fails’ to lower cholesterol – but the idea that it would lower cholesterol never made sense in the first place, which the researchers should have known.
'Cholesterol is required to manufacture Vitamin D. So, if Vitamin D is provided in a pill form, why would anyone expect cholesterol levels to be affected? It makes no sense. In fact, the study managed to demonstrate exactly what one would expect: Taking Vitamin D has no discernible effect on cholesterol levels, whether your concern is LDL, HDL, or triglycerides (which aren’t cholesterol, anyway).
Though this pseudo study would have you believe that Vitamin D is useless, the truth is completely different. In fact, people with low levels of D have 77% more heart disease than those who have only moderate levels. That should be the real eye-opener for these researchers. In combination with their useless study, it demonstrates the fact that Vitamin D improves heart health without having any effect on cholesterol.'
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Vitamin D: With Meals, or Without?
With meals, or without?by Jon Barron
'Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic discovered that taking vitamin D with large meals boosts its absorption dramatically. It was a small study — 17 subjects with an average age of 64 — all of whom had borderline vitamin D deficiencies despite taking daily supplements. The research team postulated that because vitamin D is fat soluble, it needs plenty of fat in order to activate acid bile, and the acid bile expedites absorption. And so, the researchers asked the subjects to take the vitamin with the largest meal of the day."
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