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Vitamin D research may
have doctors prescribing sunshine
The
Associated Press
Scientists are excited about a vitamin again.
But unlike fads that
sizzled and fizzled, the evidence this time is strong
and keeps growing.
If it bears
out, it will challenge one of medicine's most
fundamental beliefs: that
people need to coat themselves with sunscreen whenever
they're in the sun. Doing that may actually contribute
to far more cancer deaths than it prevents, some
researchers think.
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