Vitamin D

Follow the links below to find information on the benefits and role of vitamin D in the diet.

Reviewed March 2010

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Title:   Vegetarian eating
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Vegetarians are people who don't eat meat or seafood. With careful planning, a vegetarian diet can provide all the essential vitamins and minerals necessary for a long and healthy life. A vegetarian diet has many health benefits, but can result in some vitamin and mineral deficiencies if it is not carefully planned.
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Vitamin D
Publisher:   Cancer Council Victoria
Description:   The sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation is the major cause of skin cancer and best source of vitamin D. Sensible sun protection does not put people at risk of vitamin D deficiency.
Date:   Apr 2010
Title:   Vitamin D
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium through the small intestine. This is important for building strong bones, muscles and teeth. Most of our vitamin D is produced when UV radiation in sunlight hits our skin. Lack of exposure to sunlight can lead to vitamin D deficiency, which can cause rickets in children and osteomalacia in older people.
Date:   Dec 2009
Title:   Osteoporosis - prevention and treatment
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Osteoporosis occurs when bones become less dense, lose strength and break more easily due to calcium loss. Diet, exercise and limiting alcohol and caffeine can help to prevent osteoporosis. If you have osteoporosis, medical treatment and lifestyle changes can prevent further bone loss and reduce your risk of fractures.
Date:   Nov 2009
Title:   Rickets
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Rickets is a preventable bone disease of early childhood, caused by vitamin D deficiency. It can lead to soft and weakened bones, fractures, bone and muscle pain, and bony deformities. Children with naturally dark skin or inadequate exposure to sunlight are most at risk. Other causes may be nutritional deficiencies and disorders of the liver, kidney or small intestine.
Date:   Nov 2009
Title:   Vitamin D: what you need to know
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   A guide to vitamin D, why children need vitamin D, how children can get vitamin D, and what to do if children are not getting enough vitamin D.
Date:   Nov 2009
Title:   Vitamin D
Publisher:   The Cancer Council Australia
Description:   Information about sun skin cancer and vitamin D
Date:   Oct 2009
Title:   Vitamin D
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   In pregnancy, vitamin D helps the development of a baby's bones.
Date:   Oct 2009
Title:   Vitamin D for the treatment of chronic painful conditions in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Vitamin D has a variety of roles in the body. It is made in the skin through the action of sunlight and can also be obtained from food. A lack of vitamin D has been implicated in a number of diseases, including chronic painful conditions. Additionally, ...
Date:   Oct 2009
Title:   Calcium for children
Publisher:   Queensland Health
Description:   Calcium is an essential mineral for building strong bones and teeth during childhood and teenage years. Calcium has other roles in the body including helping out with heart functions. Our bones hold on to most of our calcium, which must be ″topped-up″ daily from our diets.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Vitamin D and pregnancy
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   In pregnancy, vitamin D helps the development of a baby's bones. If you have a vitamin D deficiency (low levels of vitamin D) it can affect the amount of calcium your baby has in his or her bones.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Interventions for bone disease in children with chronic kidney disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Chronic kidney disease (CKD) resulting in reduced kidney function and the need for dialysis and kidney transplant is associated with abnormalities in blood calcium and phosphorus levels leading to high levels of the parathyroid hormone (PTH) and to bone...
Date:   Aug 2009
Title:   Nutrition
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Attainment of peak bone mass is dependent on ensuring adequate levels of dietary calcium, exercise and normal levels of growth hormones and gonadal hormones in childhood and adolescence.
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   Nutrition
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Calcium; Calcium Counter; Recommended daily calcium intake; Vitamin D; Calcium Requirements Through Life; Childhood and Adolescence; 20s-40s; Midlife - 50's to 65; Older years - over 65; Pregnant and breastfeeding women;Other dietary factors
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   Non-drug therapies
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Even when osteoporosis is diagnosed, lifestyle factors are still important in the management of this condition.
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   Vitamin D supplementation for cystic fibrosis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cystic fibrosis with pancreatic insufficiency can cause vitamins, such as vitamin D, to be inadequately absorbed leading to vitamin deficiencies. Lack of vitamin D (vitamin D deficiency) can cause specific problems such as bone deformity and bone fractu...
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   More about vitamins
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   The word vitamin means vital to life. All plants and animals need vitamins but only green plants can make all the vitamins they need.
Date:   Jun 2009
Title:   Menopause and osteoporosis
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Menopause in women can increase the risk of developing osteoporosis. Bones become fragile and weak and may fracture easily. To help reduce your risk, eat a diet rich in calcium and exercise regularly. Treatments include bisphosphonates, selective oestrogen receptor modulators (SERMs), hormone replacement therapy (HRT), vitamin D, calcium and strontium ranelate. Potential therapies include tibolone and parathyroid hormone.
Date:   Mar 2009
Title:   Sunshine - health benefits and health risks
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Some small amount of sun exposure is needed to keep us healthy. This is because we need vitamin D which is made by the action of sunlight (UVB rays) on the skin.
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Topical treatments for chronic plaque psoriasis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Chronic plaque psoriasis is the most common type of psoriasis. Although any part of the body may be affected, the most commonly affected sites are the elbows, knees and scalp. 'Topical' treatments (i.e. treatments applied to the skin) are usually tried ...
Date:   Dec 2008

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