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1,200 IU of vitamin D daily may prevent flu

Globe & Mail [Toronto], by Martin Mittelstaedt Posted By: Photoonist- Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:47:58 GMT The reason why flu season breaks out every winter and then vanishes every summer has been a mystery long puzzling medical researchers. Now, Japanese doctors may have found an answer to the enigma – low levels of vitamin D during the dark winter months. In the first drug'style clinical trial giving relatively large doses of the vitamin to children, researchers found it was a potent flu'fighter. Those receiving the sunshine vitamin had a 42'per'cent reduction in the most severe type of flu, known as influenza A

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