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I got a question regarding a post I make in early December regarding Vitamin 
D.   Unfortunately, that email had formating issues & arrived as garble.  I 
sent copies of the original message to those who contacted me but never resent 
the message to the listserv  so it's still intelligible in the archives. After 
getting a question regarding the achived message, I felt needed to resent it 
to the listserv. As near as I can tell, the message below is the information I 
tried to post earlier.  

Also, a family practice doctor/celiac I met at the Celiac Symposium in 
November recommended this book--
The UV Advantage: The Medical Breakthrough That Shows How to Harness the 
Power of the Sun for Your Health by Michael F. Holick    
List price in $7.99 in paperback....

Below is my original post...Bev in Milwaukee  


"There has been a lot of discussion on the Celiac Listserv recently about 
supplementing Vitamin D.  

Dr. Neil Binkley at U/Wisc has a lot of interesting research on Vitamin 
D...One study called for the standardization for measuring levels of D in products 
as there are wide descrepancies in what's supposed to be in the package & what 
actually is....),  difference between labs and inconsistencies within labs.  
I can send the info I have on him if you'd like, or you can do a search at 
pubmed.com or even www.wisc.edu 

Also, Medscape posts notes a relationship between Vitamin D def & GI 
disorders.

IBD 
Vitamin D Deficiency Is Common in Children With Inflammatory Bowel Disease 
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/548295?src=mp Children with inflammatory 
bowel disease (IBD) have a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency, according to 
a new study in the November issue of Pediatrics.
Reuters Health Information 2006 

"Patients with Crohn disease who had upper gastrointestinal tract involvement 
were more likely to be vitamin D deficient than those without it, according 
to the authors. No association was found between serum 25OHD concentration and 
lumbar spine bone mineral density or serum parathyroid hormone concentration."



    
    
    
    

    
    




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