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More vitamin D benefits.(goodnews)(Brief Article)
It sounds odd--but the elderly can reduce their risk of taking a tumble by downing a vitamin D supplement. That's the conclusion of a 9-month Swiss study reported in the February 2004 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Not only do elderly people taking vitamin D supplements have fewer fractures when they fall, they actually tall less often. Participants taking vitamin D--fortified with calcium were--55 percent less likely to take a fall than those taking a placebo.
Why? If has to do with ...
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