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Maybe this is why the flu is more prevalent in the winter, when there is less sunshine, a great source of vitamin D, in the northern latitudes?
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Vitamin D
From the Science News Online week of Nov 11, 2006, Vol 170 No 20 a psychiatrist in a maximum security hospital determined that a group of inmates who were taking vitamin D did not get the flu, while 10% of the population not taking vitamin D did. Studies are underway to confirm the observation and try to determine why.
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