Vitamin D gets its day in the sun (The Charlotte Observer)
Vitamin D is hot. Oprah’s talking about it. Patients are asking for it. Doctors are prescribing it. Besides building strong bones, as we’ve always heard, vitamin D appears to protect against everything from cancer to depression. And most of us are deficient because we don’t get enough sun. That’s a particular problem for African Americans and for people with kidney and heart disease, according …