Healthy You:
D is for Deficient
by Kim Jones
It’s official. I’m now a (prescription) card carrying member
of the “Vitamin D Deficiency Club”. During National
Hospital Week this year, Cary Medical Center employees
were offered a free Vitamin D test. Not having had one
before, I rolled up my sleeve and offered up a vein. It wasn’t
long afterward that I got my results…and my golden ticket
into the club.
prostate, breast, colon, and ovarian cancers), depression,
cardiovascular disease (including high blood pressure and
stroke), and several other health conditions, as well as
reduces the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, infections,
metabolic disorders, allergies, and inflammation.
Vitamin D deficiency has become a health epidemic with an
estimated 40 – 50% of Americans below the recommended
Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin essential for good vitamin D range of between 30 – 100 ng/ml. Mine was
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