Vitamin D appears to be the latest in the arsenal to fight cancer.  A new study on nutrition and health reveals vitamin D can reduce the risk of several types of cancer.   How can that be true? 

    In San Francisco,  the Director of the Sunlight, Nurtrition and Health Research Center, says there is a strong link between vitamin D from the sun and cancer since 2000.  The strongest links are to vitamin D and colon cancer, breast cancer and somewhat for non-Hdgekin lymphoma, ovarian and kidney cancer.

  Now where can you get vitamin D?  The sun provided the vitamin for us.  But we can also get it from some foods such as salmon, milk and egg yolks.

   Getting about 10 minutes of sun exposure a day without sun screen should provide a whopping amount of vitamin D according to scientists.  Five to ten minutes of sunning yourself can translate into  approximately four-thousand iu of the vitamin a day.  That's what the doctor in charge of the study recommends deficient patients should get.

  But before you jump into taking vitamin D supplements, or go full force into sunbathing, check with your doctor first!  I'm so glad we had a sunny day today!