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Inhale, exhale. It's easy to take healthy lungs for granted. Don't. Take vitamin D instead.

The sunshine vitamin may do more than help build strong bones and defend against certain cancers. Vitamin D may also help put out the fire of inflammation that leads to chronic lung disease. Along with drinking D-fortified milk and orange juice, try D-rich recipes like this simple, savory Asian Salmon.

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Hootsky

3 of 3 people found this helpful.

8/1/2008 9:53:55 AM

Br--st cancer survivors may benefit from even higher doses of vitamin D, especially if you live in cloudy places like Seattle (where most people have a deficiency of vitamin D). Talk to your oncologist about getting your levels of D checked, and get a recommendation on a good dose for you. Taking vitamin D also increases your body's ability to absorb more of the calcium from your daily supplement. You *are* taking a calcium supplement, aren't you? :-)

[Edited by Hootsky on 8/1/2008 9:54:49 AM]

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