Mar 13, 2010

Vitamin D prevents Influenza A in Children-randomized trial results

The results of a double blind randomized trial, just published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is the first definitive evidence that vitamin D3 supplementation actually reduces the incidence of influenza A viruses in children. (H1N1 is influenza A, as is H5N1.) Especially so in kids with asthma.
Check out the abstract in the AJCN website, "Vitamin D".

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