Lose weight by eating less salt! - Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
See my website
Wilde About Steroids

Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

Read my Mensa article on Cruelty, Negligence and the Abuse of Power in the NHS: Fighting the System

Read about the cruel treatment I suffered at the Sheffield Dental Hospital: Long In The Toothache

You can contact me by email from my website. The site does not sell anything and has no banners, sponsors or adverts - just helpful information about how salt can cause obesity.


This blog has been exported to a new URL so that readers can leave Comments again. If you want to leave a Comment, please visit my 'new' blog, which has Comments enabled. The 'new' blog is Wilde About Obesity.

Friday, August 15, 2008

Lack of vitamin D linked to higher risk of death: study

Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to 26 percent greater risk of death in men and women, according to a study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in Baltimore, Maryland. They studied 13,000 initially healthy men and women from 1994 to 2000, comparing the mortality rate between those with low and normal levels of vitamin D in the blood. They found that of the 1,800 people who died by December 31, 2000 - 700 from cardiovascular diseases - 400 were deficient in vitamin D, which translated to a 26 percent increased risk of death.
Read AFP news report at google.com