This amazing vitamin can slash your risk of diabetes

…and another thing

As you and I both know, there seems to be more good news about vitamin D every day.

And the results of this new study might be the best news of all.

It found that you can slash your risk of type 2 diabetes simply by making sure you’re getting enough of the sunshine vitamin.

The research, just published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, not only found the connection between a vitamin D deficiency and diabetes, but discovered that low D significantly upped your diabetes risk, whatever your weight.

The link between weight and diabetes was thought to be so established that at first, researchers believed that a vitamin D deficiency caused weight gain. And that in turn led to diabetes.

But a lot of people — over 10 percent of the 29 million with type 2 — aren’t overweight.

So the researchers looked at both obese and thin people, and found the ones who were diabetic, were also significantly low in vitamin D. They also found that the obese people they studied who didn’t have diabetes had high vitamin D levels.

The study author, from the University of Malaga in Spain, said that his findings show vitamin D is “associated more closely with glucose metabolism than obesity.”

Now, might the fact that so many of us are deficient in vitamin D be the explanation behind the epidemic of the disease in the country? Might it be why the FDA is busy approving new diabetes drugs all the time?

Of course, Big Pharma keeps saying we need more “options” in treating the disease. But the best option is to be able to avoid diabetes in the first place. And now that we know how vital D is in such prevention, we should be making every effort to keep our levels up.

So while billions are being spent on diabetes drugs, the answer might well lie in something that can be found in salmon and egg yolks. Or better yet, in sunshine. And for good measure, vitamin D-3 supplements — which are about the least expensive vitamins you can buy.

Source:

“Low levels of vitamin D linked to type 2 diabetes risk” HealthDay, February 23, 2015, consumer.healthday.com