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The people, not Greenpeace, should decide whether they will adopt vitamin A-rich rice for themselves and their children.
Greenpeace calls golden rice a “failure,” because it “has been in development for almost 20 years and has still not made any impact on the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency.”But, as Ingo Potrykus, the scientist who developed golden rice, has made clear, that failure is due almost entirely to relentless opposition to GM foods – often by rich, well-meaning Westerners far removed from the risks of actual vitamin A deficiency.
Regulation of goods and services for public health clearly is a good idea; but it must always be balanced against potential costs – in this case, the cost of not providing more vitamin A to eight million children over the past 12 years.
The 4.4 million Filipino kids with vitamin A deficiency might not mind so much.
Measures to reduce the prevalence of iron deficiency, anemia, and vitamin A, iodine, and zinc deficiencies – which remain significant in some countries of the region – would have a positive impact.
Often, sunlight on our skin can be enough to enable us to produce all the vitamin D we need.
But when sunshine is lacking, vitamin D must be ingested, and it can be difficult to meet the recommended levels from food alone.
This matters because the health benefits of adequate vitamin D intake may be even greater than previously thought.
Vitamin D deficiencies are widespread, with around one billion people, from all age groups and ethnicities, suffering from them, even in countries with year-round sunshine.
That same habit, together with darker skin, contributes to lower levels of vitamin D among Africans.
And rickets is far from the only disease to which vitamin D deficiency may contribute.
Research conducted over the last decade suggests that vitamin D plays a much broader disease-fighting role than once thought.
For example, the Health Professional Follow-Up Study found that men with vitamin D deficiencies were twice as likely to have a heart attack as men who had adequate levels.
Several other studies have found links between low vitamin D levels and higher risk of heart failure and sudden cardiac death, stroke, and overall cardiovascular disease.
Yet another study showed that daily vitamin D supplements may improve cardiac function in people with chronic heart failure.
Dozens more studies point to a potential link between low levels of vitamin D and increased cancer risk, particularly the risk of colorectal cancer (though, based on current evidence, it remains unclear whether vitamin D supplements actually lower cancer risk.
Likewise, vitamin D levels may go some way toward predicting cancer survival (though the evidence remains limited here, as well).
Then there is multiple sclerosis, which occurs at much lower rates in sunnier climates, possibly owing in part to higher vitamin D levels.
One study found that, of patients who already have MS, those who took a high dose of vitamin D supplements had lower relapse rates.
Another study showed that those with the highest vitamin D blood levels had a 62% lower risk of developing MS than those with the lowest vitamin D levels.
Likewise, a 30-year study in Finland found that children who regularly received vitamin D supplements during infancy had a nearly 90% lower risk of developing type 1 diabetes than those who received none.
Other European case-control studies reinforce the conclusion that vitamin D may help protect against type 1 diabetes.
Even obesity may have connections to vitamin D. A clinical study found that providing supplements to obese and overweight people with vitamin D deficiency aids weight loss and enhances the benefits of a reduced-calorie diet.
Another study revealed that women dieters with insufficient calcium who took a calcium and vitamin D supplement had more fat loss than those who did not.
As if that were not enough, vitamin D also helps to fight infection.
Scientists have discovered that vitamin D is necessary to activate the immune system’s T-cells, which identify and attack bad pathogens circulating throughout the body.
A randomized controlled trial in Japanese children found that type A influenza rates in children taking vitamin D supplements were about 40% lower than in those taking a placebo; there was no significant difference in type B influenza rates.
A recent review found that vitamin D supplementation was safe and protective against acute respiratory tract infection overall.
A study showed that TB patients recovered at a faster rate when given vitamin D alongside antibiotics.
And several studies, when analyzed together, suggest that people diagnosed with tuberculosis have lower vitamin D levels than healthy people of similar age and other characteristics.
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