According to a recent research study, more consumption of vitamin D supplements may diminish the risk of developing type1 diabetes. It is more applicable for your kids, because if they increase the intake of vitamin D supplements, then they can be a little safer from developing this disease later in life than other kids.

The study suggests that the kids who took vitamin D supplements were around 30% less prone to build up those conditions than the kids who didn’t take vitamin D supplements.

Facts That the Study Reveals

The research study has been done by the St Mary’s Hospital for Women and Children, Manchester. It states that type1 diabetes is caused by the immune system damage of pancreatic cells that actually produce the insulin hormone.

This disease is very common and spreading its vicious tentacles with approximately two million North Americans and Europeans affected. Day by day it is becoming largely common. It has been estimated that the count of new cases are likely to rise up to 40% between 2000 and 2010.

The research team basically gathered data from 5 studies investigating the effects of vitamin D supplementation. They used the supplementation process to decrease the risk. The effect of the vitamin D supplementation was dose dependent. Actually if the dose is high and regular than the risk of the disease lessens.

Link between Diabetes & Sun exposure

Other researches prior to this one have found that people who are diagnosed with this disease have less absorption of vitamin D than the other persons without the disease.

Research Studies have also suggested that type1 diabetes generally happens in the countries where the sun exposure is lower. It is so because sunlight enables our body to produce vitamin D and the deficiency of this vitamin may result into type 1 diabetes.

Dr Victoria King, of the charity Diabetes UK, said: “Much more research, in particular controlled trials which compares the results when one group of people are given vitamin D supplements and one group is not, are needed before we can confirm a concrete association between vitamin D and type 1 diabetes.”