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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.

A Lecture by Reinhold Vieth, Professor, Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Mount Sinai Hospital. Presentation Date: Friday, October 21, 2005 (works in Internet Explorer, but not properly in Firefox (slides don't change in Firefox)).

Vieth R, Chan PC, MacFarlane GD.Efficacy and safety of vitamin D3 intake exceeding the lowest observedadverse effect level.Am J Clin Nutr. 2001 Feb;73(2):288-94.PMID: 11157326 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

The panel selected to analyze the health claims is being criticized for not including the medical researchers whose work prompted intense scientific interest in the nutrient in the first place. "If you were publicly in favour of vitamin D, you were not included, and I find that outrageous," said Reinhold Vieth, a professor in the department of nutritional sciences at the University of Toronto, and one of Canada's leading experts on the nutrient.