With a relatively huge sampling (20,000 subjects) and double blind methodology, VITAL hopes to once and for all settle the long term benefits, or risks, of vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids. While the studies will be centered at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, the subjects will cover the entire U.S. These supplements will be either placebos, vitamin D, or fish oil. Starting in January of next year, they will recruit men over the age of 65 and women over 60 to take daily supplements and report on their health. Julie Buring, the heads of VITAL are gearing up for the trials. When it comes to preventing stroke, heart attack, or cancer, these two guys seem like the ideal dietary supplements to take.Īnd in five years, we’ll hopefully know for certain.

Fish Oil, with high levels of vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids is supposed to good for everything from good skin to memory loss.

Vitamin D has been inconclusively linked to heart health and cancer prevention, not to mention bone strength. Not quite the names for a buddy cop movie, but for the last decade, they’ve each been toted as the way to combat the killer diseases of our time. With darker skin producing less vitamin D in the body from sun exposure, scientists theorize there may be a link between a vitamin D deficiency and higher rates of stroke, heart disease, and cancer in the Af.Am. The Vitamin D and Omega-3 Trial (or VITAL) will be a five year study and will be one of the first to specifically target African Americans as test subjects. The National Institute for Health ( NIH) is funding a $20 million dollar study with 20,000 test subjects to explore how vitamin D and fish oil affect health. But what if it didn’t have to be this way? What if there were just a few simple things you could eat or take that would protect you from all three killers?

Just this week Michael Jackson (heart attack?) and Farah Fawcett (cancer) were struck down, and the media is waiting on baited breath for another celebrity to die and fulfill the “rule of threes.” Stroke, we’re looking at you.

The western world faces three very notorious killers: heart disease, cancer, and stroke. Do I need to catch more sun and vitamin D?

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