‘Sunshine’ vitamin D offers many rays of hope (Albany Times Union)
Imagine a nutrient that could help prevent cancer, heart disease, tuberculosis, preserve bones and thwart autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and juvenile diabetes. Too good to be true? But that’s the potential promise for vitamin D, a nutrient whose usefulness was once thought to be limited to prevention of rickets in children and severe bone loss in adults. …