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A Track Your Plaque member brough the following webcast to our attention:
Prospects for Vitamin D Nutrition\nwhich can be found at
http://tinyurl.com/f93vl
(The above link no longer seems to work, use
http://wildhorse.insinc.com/directms13oct2005/
instead)
Despite the painfully dull title, the webcast is the best summary of data on the health benefits on vitamin D that I've seen. The presenter is Dr. Reinhold Vieth, who is among the handful of worldwide authorities on vitamin D. In 1999, Dr. Vieth authored the first review to concisely and persuasively argue that vitamin D nutrition was woefully neglected and that its potential for health was enormous.