Vitamin D deficiency (and the negative health consequences of such deficiency) has been much in the news lately. Indeed, Vitamin D itself has been the most talked about nutrient of the past year. Increasingly, the scientific/nutritional/medical communities are recognizing the ill effects of deficiency and the therapeutic/healing effects of correcting that deficiency. Since Vitamin D deficiency is common, the standard American diet is low in Vitamin D, and most people avoid the sun, supplementation can be crucial. An upcoming seminar will address these issues and the details are below.

From the announcement:

Dear Colleague:
What public health action could you take today that could possibly stop breast cancer and colon cancer, prevent type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis, and reduce the incidence of infectious diseases? What would be the economic impact of this action?

A group of physicians and researchers in the vitamin D field are presenting information at this conference to look at the current research and practice with vitamin D to enable everyone to take action today based on what’s known to solve the deficiency epidemic, and, to start the prevention of many diseases.

Find out whether testing is necessary, why, what to do about the levels and learn more about how vitamin D works for our health.

Objectives
At the end of the course, the participants should be able to:

1. Define what is meant by a nutrient deficiency; define how vitamin D status is evaluated; define the low end of the vitamin D nutritional status normal range.
2. Quantify a dose response relationship for breast cancer and vitamin D. List at least two steps in Dr. Garland’s DINOMIT model.
3. State the measurement and D status protocol that can be used with breast cancer patients.
4. Identify 3 sources of vitamin D.
5. List 3 infectious diseases affected by vitamin D.
6. Identify and quantify risk levels of vitamin D.

Agenda

8:45 Introduction
Reinhold Vieth, Ph.D., University of Toronto

9:00 Vitamin D Deficiency – Causes and Mechanisms
Robert P. Heaney, MD

9:45 Viewing Breast Cancer as a Deficiency Disease
Cedric F. Garland, Dr. P.H., F.A.C.E.

10:30 Break

10:45 Breast Cancer Patients: D Status, Treatment Protocol
Tracey L. O’Connor, MD

11:30 Lunch

12:45 Sources of Vitamin D Nutrition
Susan J. Whiting, Ph.D.

1:30 Controlling Infectious Diseases
John H. White, Ph.D.

2:15 Break

2:30 Solving the D Deficiency–a Safety Profile
Reinhold Vieth, Ph.D.

3:15 Vitamin D Expert Panel
All speakers plus additional D experts

4:15 Participant/Speaker Reception

5:00 Adjourn

Other information including registration and accreditation is available at the Grassroots Health website.

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