No benefit from Vitamin D: new studies, controversial results
Published on 13/2/2014
"A supplementary intake of vitamin D could produce beneficial effects in terms of reducing the risk of fractures, cancers and heart problems to a degree that does not exceed 15%".
This, in broad terms, is what would emerge from the meta-analysis study conducted by Dr. Bolland of the University of Auckland on a random sample of 40 experiments on the matter, subsequently published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.
According to what is reported by Foodnavigator.com, the author of the study on the supposed "uselessness" of vitamin D added to food or taken as a supplement believes that the properties attributed to vitamin D would have been observed mostly in studies where it was "empirically" observed how cases of fracture, ischaemia and cardiovascular problems were linked to a vitamin D insufficiency.
It is extremely interesting to note how at the foot of the article there is a wide range of comments that strongly contest the results of the study, putting forward the opposite results highlighted by other studies published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.