Vitamin d sunlight or supplements?

Giving your body the vital nutrients that it needs to stay healthy is so important and a new survey found that one of the most important nutrients, vitamin d (sunlight or supplements) can have more than one role in maintaining healthy than we even suspect.
When it comes to risk for heart disease fatal deficiencies of vitamin d may be a risk factor that, until now, was recognized.
It can also be linked to other risk factors for heart disease, including diabetes, obesity and hypertension. The good news is that this type of disability is an easy thing to fix.
Several large studies have shown that those with low vitamin d levels were twice as likely to have a heart attack, stroke or other event related heart compared to those with higher levels of vitamin d.
"Vitamin d deficiency is a recognised cardiovascular risk factor, that should be crawled for and treated, emerging," says researcher James h. O'Keefe, MD, Director of preventive cardiology at the Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, in a statement. "Vitamin d is easy to assess and supplementation is simple, safe and cheap".
Vitamin d deficiency is much more common than anyone ever thought and affects up to 50% of healthy adults and children in the United States.
This may be due in part to us all to spend less time non-sunscreened in natural sunlight. sunscreens of SPF 15 block virtually all vitamin d synthesis in the skin. If you're a little older, or overweight or obese, your body is naturally less efficient in making vitamin d from sunlight.
If you suspect that a vitamin d deficiency blood tests exist that can be made to look for a specific form of vitamin called 25-hydroxy vitamin d, and you can be tracked if you have risk factors.
Governments U.S. recommended daily vitamin d are 200 international units (IUs) a day for those below 50. 400 IUs if you are from 50 to 70 years of age. 600 IUs if you have more than 70 years of age. Most health experts still think these numbers are very low, and that somewhere between 1000 to 2000 IU per day is a most appropriate level. The maximum limit of intake of vitamin d is 10000 international units per day.
"Restore the vitamin d levels to normal is important in maintaining good health, Musculoskeletal and can also improve heart health and prognosis," says O'Keefe. "We need large, randomized, controlled trials to determine whether or not vitamin d supplementation may reduce effectively future heart disease and deaths".
The more powerful, more natural vitamin d is simple sun exposure, during at least intense (i.e. from 10 to 2 pm) hours of the day.
Food sources of vitamin D include salmon, sardine, cod liver oil and vitamin d fortified choices such as milk and some cereal. Supplements are another good source of this vital nutrient.
If you have a vitamin d deficiency, there are methods that you can use to restore the right levels in your body, vitamin d through sunlight or taking supplements. Talk to your doctor about what you can do. Research and vitamin d recommendations appear on 9 December 2008, the journal of the American College of cardiology (JACC).