Can Vitamin D Help Prevent Cancer?
Do you know the sun could provide you vitamin D?
There is perhaps no other disease with a more aggressive and established campaign to discover its cure than cancer. From the V Foundation to the Susan G. Komen Race for the cure, the battle against cancer doesn’t escape anyone’s conscience. The variations of cancer and its vicious impact make it an ever present threat to people of all color, gender and creed. Nearly every person can tell a first or second hand account of the devastation cancer raged upon the lives of their family and friends. Unfortunately, though much progress has been made and ongoing research continues to inch closer and closer to potential cures, a solution has not been discovered yet. However, perhaps the best way to battle cancer is to make wise lifestyle choices which won’t increase your risks. You are likely aware of the dangers presented from smoking and tanning beds, but did you know that a Vitamin D deficiency increases your risk for cancer?
We all hope to avoid cancer, particularly before it reaches a point requiring any sort of treatment. However, many of us do not make the proper lifestyle choices which protect our health. Combating cancer is a lifetime battle of making good health choices as well as the fortune of it simply avoiding your body. The choices you make can significantly increase your chances of staying cancer free.
Many people are not aware of the role Vitamin D plays in preventing cancer. Would you believe that by simply increasing your Vitamin D intake by such a negligible amount could drastically reduce your risk for cancer? Recent studies suggest that a daily increase of just 25 micrograms of Vitamin D intakes reduce the risk for colon cancer by 50% and the risk for breast and ovarian cancer by 30%. In case you aren’t familiar, a microgram is 1/1,000,000 of a gram. Low Vitamin D levels are prevalent among cancer patients. It is astounding that such a minimal increase in Vitamin D intake may have such a dramatic effect upon risk for cancer. Cancer is the result of the mutation of cells within your body. Maintaining healthy levels of Vitamin D help assure that your body functions in a normal capacity which reduces the risk for the mutation of cells.
As the battle against cancer wages on, your best ammunition may be Vitamin D. The best prevention of disease is assuring that your body continues to function as it should. Vitamin D plays an essential role in ensuring that the body’s natural processes continue efficiently and effectively. When you deny your body the proper amounts of Vitamin D, your system begins to function at a lower level and your chances of becoming susceptible to illnesses and diseases are greatly increased. Beyond cancer prevention, Vitamin D offers many health benefits including prevention of osteoporosis, reduced risk for arthritis, strengthening of your immune system, and reduction of asthma symptoms. Battling cancer is an ugly and long battle that begins from your life’s inception. Be sure to introduce plenty of Vitamin D into your diet… it may be just the tool you need to fight against cancer.
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