Vitamin D is 800 percent more effective than vaccines at preventing flu symptoms, one of the internet’s leading natural health web sites is reporting based on a random-controlled trial conducted this spring on the sunshine vitamin and flu.

“In the study, while 31 of 167 children in the placebo group contracted influenza over the four month duration of the study, only 18 of 168 children in the vitamin D group did. This means vitamin D was responsible for an absolute reduction of nearly 8 percent,” NaturalNews.com founder Mike Adams reported. “Flu vaccines, according to the latest scientific evidence, achieve a 1 percent reduction in influenza symptoms. This means vitamin D appears to be 800% more effective than vaccines at preventing influenza infections in children.”

Adams referred to a clinical trial conducted by the Division of Molecular Epidemiology in the the Department of Pediatrics at the Jikei University School of Medicine Minato-ku in Tokyo. The study found that vitamin D was extremely effective at halting influenza infections in children and was published in the March, 2010 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

According to Adams: “The results are from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study involving 334 children, half of which were given 1200 IUs per day of vitamin D3. In other words, this was a Œrigorous¹ scientific study meeting the gold standard of scientific evidence.”

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