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A fact sheet that summarizes the results of studies on vitamin D and cancer prevention. It includes information about dietary recommendations for vitamin D.

CDC: Prevention Public Health Grand Rounds - The Public Health Grand Rounds is a monthly series created to further strengthen CDC's common scientific culture and foster discussion and debate on major public health issues. Each session of the Public Health Grand Rounds will focus on key issues and challenges related to a specific health topic, including cutting-edge scientific evidence and potential impact of different interventions. The sessions will also highlight how CDC is already addressing these challenges and discuss the recommendations for future research and practice.

CDC: Prevention Public Health Grand Rounds - The Public Health Grand Rounds is a monthly series created to further strengthen CDC's common scientific culture and foster discussion and debate on major public health issues. Each session of the Public Health Grand Rounds will focus on key issues and challenges related to a specific health topic, including cutting-edge scientific evidence and potential impact of different interventions. The sessions will also highlight how CDC is already addressing these challenges and discuss the recommendations for future research and practice.

CDC: Prevention Public Health Grand Rounds - The Public Health Grand Rounds is a monthly series created to further strengthen CDC's common scientific culture and foster discussion and debate on major public health issues. Each session of the Public Health Grand Rounds will focus on key issues and challenges related to a specific health topic, including cutting-edge scientific evidence and potential impact of different interventions. The sessions will also highlight how CDC is already addressing these challenges and discuss the recommendations for future research and practice.

CDC: Prevention Public Health Grand Rounds - The Public Health Grand Rounds is a monthly series created to further strengthen CDC's common scientific culture and foster discussion and debate on major public health issues. Each session of the Public Health Grand Rounds will focus on key issues and challenges related to a specific health topic, including cutting-edge scientific evidence and potential impact of different interventions. The sessions will also highlight how CDC is already addressing these challenges and discuss the recommendations for future research and practice.

Spending time outdoors can improve overall health and wellness. Spending more time in the sun will not continue to increase vitamin D levels, but will increase your skin cancer risk.

Read about symptoms and management of lactose intolerance, a condition in which you have digestive symptoms after you consume foods or drinks that have lactose.

Find out what calcium is and what it does in your body, what foods provide it, and about calcium supplements.

Aprender lo que es el calcio y lo que hace en el cuerpo, cuales alimentos son fuentes del calcio, y de los suplementos de calcio.

Recommended intakes and sources of calcium, effects of deficiency and excess, groups at risk of inadequacy, and interactions with medications.

Find out what vitamin D is and what it does in your body, what foods provide it, and about vitamin D supplements.

Find out what vitamin D is and what it does in your body, what foods provide it, and about vitamin D supplements.

Osteoporosis is a disease of the bones. It affects mostly older women, but prevention starts when you are younger. Learn more from the Office on Women’s Health.

Describes symptoms, causes, and treatment of primary hyperparathyroidism where one or more enlarged parathyroid gland secretes too much parathyroid hormone.