Comments on Gordon's Notes: Medical fads - are they cycling faster?

Thanks for the comments Chris and Bernard. I added...

2012-01-01T19:19:45.047-06:00

Thanks for the comments Chris and Bernard. I added a postscript to my post with the Vit D story.

The Vit D fad resembles the Vitamin E fad. Great enthusiasm, negative results, then a suspicion of harm due to large doses.

Still good science to be done, but the fad is past.

Hi I, like chrismealy, would like a little more d...

2012-01-01T16:20:36.181-06:00

Hi

I, like chrismealy, would like a little more detail on the vitamin D craze you refer to. Google led me to a summary on vitamin D supplements and their usefulness. Is this what you were referring to?

My reason for asking is that here in Australia there has been a debate about how we should get our vitamin D as many of us have low levels. For many years the sun was not

wait, what's wrong with vitamin d?

2012-01-01T10:19:26.214-06:00

wait, what's wrong with vitamin d?