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- Vitamin D foodfortification in European countries: the underused potential to prevent cancer deaths
- VitaminDWiki - >10 X more helped if also consider Diabetes, Obesity, Smoking, Pregnancy, etc.
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24 Vitamin D fortification studies in Europe - VitaminDWiki - Fortification with Vitamin D
- VitaminDWiki - Bread Fortification
- VitaminDWiki Fortification pages with BREAD in title
- VitaminDWiki - Change of Vitamin D Fortification in Denmark
- VitaminDWiki - Prevent Cancer deaths with Vitamin D
- VitaminDWiki - Weekly Vitamin D has been proven to fight 49 health problems
- VitaminDWiki recommends encouraging, but not demanding fortification
- VitaminDWiki - Increased use of D has
Vitamin D foodfortification in European countries: the underused potential to prevent cancer deaths
Eur J Epidemiol. 2022 May 6. doi: 10.1007/s10654-022-00867-4
Tobias Niedermaier 1, Thomas Gredner 2, Sabine Kuznia 2 3, Ben Schöttker 2 4, Ute Mons 2 5 6, Jeroen Lakerveld 7, Wolfgang Ahrens 8 9, Hermann Brenner 2 4 10 11, PEN-ConsortiumBackground: Meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials have shown that vitamin D supplementation reduces cancer mortality by 13%. Vitamin D fortification of foods may increase vitamin D levels in a similar manner as vitamin D supplementation and could achieve similar reductions in cancer mortality. Whereas some European countries already implemented widespread fortification of foods with vitamin D, in other countries only few or no foods are fortified. In this study, we estimated the reduction in cancer mortality presumably already achieved by current fortification policies in 2017 and the potential for further reductions if all countries had effective fortification.
Methods: We reviewed scientific literature, publicly available information, and contacted health authorities to obtain information on current vitamin D food fortification policies in 34 European countries. Together with country-specific cancer death statistics from Eurostat, information on life expectancy, and country-specific fortification policies, we used data from studies on supplementation and serum 25(OH)D increases and cancer mortality to estimate numbers of probably already prevented cancer deaths and numbers of potentially further preventable deaths and years of life lost.
Results: Current vitamin D fortification is estimated to prevent approximately 11,000 in the European Union and 27,000 cancer deaths in all European countries considered per year. If all countries considered here would implement adequate vitamin D fortification of foods, an estimated additional 129,000 cancer deaths (113,000 in the European Union) could be prevented, corresponding to almost 1.2 million prevented years of life lost (1.0 million in the EU) or approximately 9% of cancer deaths (10% in the EU).
Interpretation: Systematic fortification of foods might considerably reduce the burden of cancer deaths in Europe.
Download the PDF from VitaminDWikiTable of forification status in European Countries
- ++ Mandatory fortification with adequate amounts covering an adequate range (four or more commonly consumed foods) of products;
- + Wide-spread voluntary fortification but with insufficient amounts or adequate mandatory fortification of too few products;
- o Insufficient mandatory fortification plus some voluntary fortification,
- - No mandatory fortification but some voluntary fortification of foods;
- — No mandatory fortification and almost no voluntary fortification of foods.
VitaminDWiki - >10 X more helped if also consider Diabetes, Obesity, Smoking, Pregnancy, etc.
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24 Vitamin D fortification studies in Europe This list is automatically updated
- 65% of UK govt. nutrition advisors are paid by food companies – BMJ Sept 2024
- Fortification of foods: 1200 IU Vitamin D daily is safe – Dec 2022
- Vitamin D fortification could eliminate 1 in 10 Cancer deaths in the EU – May 2022
- Vitamin D added to margarine reduced inflammatory bowel disease by 13 percent 30 years later – Nov 2019
- Vitamin D Deficiency in Europe- need at least 1000 IU to get to even 20 ng – Cashman April 2019
- Vitamin D is low in Europe – 40 percent have less than 20 ng – ODEN Oct 2018
- France wants to reduce hip fractures by drinking 10 glasses of milk daily – April 2018
- Kelloggs finally doubling the vitamin D in UK cereals (to 100 IU) – March 2018
- France is planning to reduce hip fractures by dairy vitamin D fortification (plan will not work) – 2017
- Vitamin D levels in Finland increased 2000-2011 (supplementation and fortification) – May 2017
- Vitamin D fortification is returning to Finland – now 400 IU per 100 gram of butter – Oct 2016
- Marks and Spencer (UK) is adding 80 IUs of vitamin D to sandwiches – Sept 2016
- Sweden will increase vitamin D food fortification a bit in Oct 2016
- Danes opposed to Vitamin D fortification, will get more COPD, diabetes, depression, lupus, leg pain, etc – Oct 2015
- Sweden proposes to increase Vitamin D fortification to US levels - May 2015
- Schizophrenia increased 40 percent for Spring births after Danes stopped vitamin D fortification – April 2014
- Vitamin D fortification of milk helps (proven in Gemany this time) – RCT Dec 2013
- ODIN: Europeans study vitamin D fortification and testing
- Sweden has fortified low-fat milk with a small amount of vitamin D since 1983
- Germany does not fortify ANY food with vitamin D, is considering 1000 IU from bread – Nov 2013
- Danish study of childhood diseases vs vitamin D fortification – May 2013
- UK Milk producer sets vitamin D day, yet UK milk rarely has vitamin D – March 31 2013
- Can fortify food with 1000 IU of vitamin D - Italy, March 2013
- Vitamin D review from Ireland - April 2012
VitaminDWiki - Fortification with Vitamin D
135 items in Fortification category Fortification works, even if food is cooked, but govts rarely fortifiy with enough
Govts, food producers, and families can fortify:
milk, yogurt, beer, bread, cereals, cooking oil, soups, jams, jellys, honey, snack bars, etc.
Some interesting fortification articles- Biofortification with Vitamin D - several studies
- Vitamin D fortification in Europe preventing 27,000 Cancer deaths, could prevent 129,000 – May 2022
- Vitamin D fortification could eliminate 1 in 10 Cancer deaths in the EU – May 2022
- After years of adding vitamin D, Finland now has 38 ng levels - March 2022
- Fortification with Vitamin D works – 16 studies of Danish experience – July 2021
- Vitamin D fortification of beverages – Review March 2022
- Bread fortified with Vitamin D - many studies 13+ studies
- International Conference of Vitamin D Fortification of Food (India) – Sept 2018
- 2400 IU of vitamin D needed to get most Northern adults above 20 ng – June 2020
- Vitamin D home fortification- don't wait 100 years for your govt
VitaminDWiki - Bread Fortification
VitaminDWiki Fortification pages with BREAD in title
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Items found: 13
VitaminDWiki - Change of Vitamin D Fortification in Denmark
- 60 percent more life births after infertility diagnosis if Vitamin D fortification (Denmark) - Nov 2019
- Vitamin D food fortification during pregnancy reduced gestational diabetes in daughters by 13 percent – Nov 2018
- Vitamin D added to margarine reduced inflammatory bowel disease by 13 percent 30 years later – Nov 2019
- Preeclampsia of offspring cut in half if mother who smoked had vitamin D fortified margarine – Dec 2017
- Danish study of childhood diseases vs vitamin D fortification – May 2013
- 9 studies by Denmak D-Tech group (fortifiy Margarine with Vitamin D) online as of Nov 2019
VitaminDWiki - Prevent Cancer deaths with Vitamin D
- Breast, Prostate and Colon Cancers are still strongly associated with low Vitamin D – Grant Jan 2020
- Cancer incidence and death reduced by both Vitamin D and UVB – Grant Oct 2021
- People supplemented with Vitamin D had 13 percent fewer Cancer deaths – Meta-analysis of RCT June 2019
VitaminDWiki - Weekly Vitamin D has been proven to fight 49 health problems
Randomized Controlled Trials using 50,000 IU of Vitamin D
VitaminDWiki recommends encouraging, but not demanding fortification
- Governments could, for example, pay for the vitamin D added to beverages, bread. etc.
- Give the customers the option of buying the food fortified with vitamin D, at perhaps the same price
- Letting fortification be optional will allow a >10 X increase in the fortification dose
- When fortification is mandatory the regulators keep the dose so low that even the rare people( 1 in 300?) that accumulate vitamin D will not be harmed
VitaminDWiki - Increased use of D has
People have been noticing, and increasing vitamin D (55 items) Studies are showing increased Vitamin D consumption and associated
Increased levels of vitamin D PLUS increased health- Vitamin D is increasing in Greece: testing, supplementation, and levels – Jan 2024
- US Vitamin D levels increased 2001-2018 – Oct 2022
- After years of adding vitamin D, Finland now has 38 ng levels - March 2022
- Trends in vitamin D status around the world – Nov 2021
- Vitamin D levels increased in Saudi Arabia over a decade (more sun or supplements) – Sept 2021
- 26 X increase in Vitamin D prescriptions for youths in England in 8 years – Dec 2019
- Vitamin D levels continue to rise in the US - April 2019
- 93 pcnt of these Lupus patients supplemented with Vitamin D - Nov 2020
- UK people with Multiple Sclerosis are 3X more likely to take Vitamin D - Oct 2020
- Parkinson patients: 60 % taking Vitamin D – Dec 2019
- The use of Vitamin D to prevent prostate cancer doubled in a decade – May 2019
- Vitamin D levels continue to rise in the US - April 2019
- Vitamin D levels at Mayo Clinic increased over a decade – June 2018
- Vitamin D levels in US: percent having more than 40 ng doubled (2001-2010) - Dec 2016
- Rickets almost eradicated in counties giving free Vitamin D, perhaps the world can learn – Dec 2019
- Vitamin D in US children: those having more than 40 ng increased 60 percent (2001-2010) - Dec 2016
- 4 times fewer with vitamin D deficiency in just 4 years ( Connecticut) – March 2016
- 20X increase in vitamin D sold and 36 percent decrease in osteoporosis business in Australia – Nov 2013
- Many more people now have vitamin D levels above 50 ng, especially seniors – May 2015
- has the following chart for one US county
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