The Minnesota salon owner who organized a bikini parade to increase awareness of getting your vitamin D level checked in light of vitamin D\u2019s connection with breast cancer risk reduction responded to a column in the Mankota Free Press chastising her efforts.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is sad that Free Press News Editor Kathy Vos, a breast cancer survivor herself, could be so uninformed about Vitamin D, its well-documented role in cancer risk reduction and the fact that sunshine exposure is the body\u2019s most natural and abundant source,\u201d Cynthia Frederick, owner of Electric Beach in Mankato, Minn., wrote. \u201cNow that I have processed Vos\u2019 July 28 Free Press column sarcastically chastising the Vitamin D-breast cancer awareness parade I organized, I realize her misunderstanding about this issue is exactly why I organized a bikini parade in Madison Lake and why I remain committed to increasing Vitamin D awareness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vos wrote a column full of sarcasm about the event, but did not speak to Frederick before doing so.<\/p>\n
\u201cVos did not call me prior to writing what many of my colleagues and I read as a flip commentary about what her oncologist apparently hadn\u2019t told her regarding Vitamin D. It appeared she had not read any of the hundreds of peer-reviewed studies that connect Vitamin D deficiency with higher risk of many forms of cancer,\u201d Frederick wrote.<\/p>\n
Frederick\u2019s main point: \u201cSun exposure is the body\u2019s most natural source of Vitamin D. If you believe that nature was wrong and you choose to avoid the sun, you can get Vitamin D from supplements.\u201d<\/p>\n