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21/09/2012
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RIO - A study of 67 patients over 60 years of Pro-Cardiac Hospital between July 2010 and August 2011, found that two in three seniors have a deficit of vitamin D. In the research, it was used as standard normal blood levels of vitamin D above 32 ng / ml (nanograms per milliliter). Values between 15 and 32 ng / ml were considered as deficient and below 15 ng / ml, severe deficiency. Only 17% of patients had adequate levels of vitamin D deficiency and 36.5% showed severe. The group with the highest concentration was 41 ng / ml. Among patients with severe found a mean of 9.8 ng / mL with a minimum value of 3.5 ng / ml.
- It is very difficult to meet the daily requirement of vitamin D with only power, it would take two large pieces of salmon, two tablespoons of butter, three cups of whole milk, large quantities. More important than the food is to take 15 minutes of daily sun without sunscreen, at the times indicated - explains nutritionist Vanessa Pereira Montera, which uses labor as master thesis at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF).
The modern lifestyle makes people not exposed to the sun, but the lack of vitamin D may contribute to the development of cancer and cardiovascular diseases such as high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, diabetes and cardiac hypertrophy. Sun exposure activates the production of pre-vitamin D: the skin is a precursor, a molecule which, in contact with the sun, turns into pre-vitamin D, which provide active vitamin D in adequate amounts. Besides the sun, supplementation of 800 international units (IU) to 600 IU for older people and adults is also shown and is within the maximum limit of two thousand IU recommended by Ministry of Health
Source: Extra Online
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