{"id":2146,"date":"2016-04-09T02:08:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T02:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrugstore.md\/blog\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2013-09-12T23:59:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T23:59:22","slug":"vitamind-colds-l0409","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/current-health-news\/vitamind-colds-l0409\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Vitamin D Doesn’t Help The Common Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new study shows Vitamin D does not ward off the common cold. <\/strong>A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association says people taking Vitamin D are just as likely to catch a cold as those taking a placebo.<\/p>\n

Vitamin D, an old wives tale?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Study: Vitamin D doesn’t have the cold-fighting power we thought.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Colds are inevitable. We all get them, and they make us all miserable, and I don’t think we’re going to come up with a way around that,” says Dr. Jeffrey Lister, an associate physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston who wrote an editorial accompanying the study.<\/p>\n

“Besides eating a balanced diet with lots of vitamins and minerals, and exercising, and generally living a healthy life, it’s unlikely that we’re going to find one single pill or cure that’s going to prevent them or lessen their severity.”<\/p>\n

While the study contradicts previous thoughts, Dr. David Murdoch, the lead author of the study and a pathologist at the University of Otago, in New Zealand, says more research is needed to make this conclusion 100 percent certain.<\/p>\n

“This study highlights the need for good quality studies to look at each potential health benefit before making broad recommendations,” Murdoch says.<\/p>\n

Is Vitamin D better for bone health?<\/strong><\/p>\n

While Vitamin D might now ward off the common cold, other studies have suggested high doses of the vitamin to help seniors prevent bone fractures.<\/p>\n

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Vitamin D may not kick your cold, but it does have advantages for seniors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cVitamin D supplementation is an efficient intervention for a costly injury that affects thousands of older adults each year,\u201d said Dawson-Hughes, who is also a professor at Tufts University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe average recovery is long and painful and deeply impacts quality of life. After a fracture, older patients may only regain partial mobility, resulting in a loss of independence that is personally demoralizing and that can place added stress on family members and caregivers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new study shows Vitamin D does not ward off the common cold. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association says people taking Vitamin D are just as likely to catch a cold as those taking a placebo. Vitamin D, an old wives tale? “Colds are inevitable. We all get them, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_autoblog_aioseo_focus_keyphrase":"","_autoblog_aioseo_title":"","_autoblog_aioseo_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-health-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t