{"id":6327,"date":"2011-07-07T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/index.php\/study-vitamin-d-lowers-diabetes-risk\/"},"modified":"2011-07-07T04:00:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T08:00:20","slug":"study-vitamin-d-lowers-diabetes-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/study-vitamin-d-lowers-diabetes-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Vitamin D Lowers Diabetes Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study of more than 2,000 people at risk for diabetes suggests that higher sunshine vitamin levels reduces the risk of contracting the disease \u2014 another study connecting vitamin D with lower risk of disease.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6328\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"2011-07-07 Vitamin D Lowers Diabetes Risk copy\" src=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/2011-07-07-Vitamin-D-Lowers-Diabetes-Risk-copy.jpg\" alt=\"2011-07-07 Vitamin D Lowers Diabetes Risk copy\" width=\"285\" height=\"150\" \/>The results were presented by Tufts University Medical Center Dr. Anastassios Pittas at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association in San Diego last week. Pittas considers the findings preliminary, but \u201cif confirmed, there are huge implications because vitamin D is easy and inexpensive,&#8221; Pittas told WebMD.<\/p>\n<p>The three-year study looked at people with high blood-sugar readings. Those with higher vitamin D levels were 38 percent less likely to develop diabetes than those who were vitamin D deficient.<\/p>\n<p>To read the WebMD story <a href=\"http:\/\/diabetes.webmd.com\/news\/20110628\/study-vitamin-d-may-cut-risk-of-diabetes?src=RSS_PUBLIC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study of more than 2,000 people at risk for diabetes suggests that higher sunshine vitamin levels reduces the risk of contracting the disease \u2014 another study connecting vitamin D with lower risk of disease. The results were presented by Tufts University Medical Center Dr. Anastassios Pittas at the annual meeting of the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Study: Vitamin D Lowers Diabetes Risk - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A new study of more than 2,000 people at risk for diabetes suggests that higher sunshine vitamin levels reduces the risk of contracting the disease \u2014 another study connecting vitamin D with lower risk of disease. The results were presented by Tufts University Medical Center Dr. Anastassios Pittas at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association in San Diego last week. Pittas considers the findings preliminary, but \u201cif confirmed, there are huge implications because vitamin D is easy and inexpensive,&quot; Pittas told WebMD. The three-year study looked at people with high blood-sugar readings. Those with higher vitamin D levels were 38 percent less likely to develop diabetes than those who were vitamin D deficient. 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