wedrifid comments on Announcing the Quantified Health Prize - Less Wrong

50 Post author: Zvi 02 December 2011 06:01AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 09 December 2011 03:35:05AM 6 points [-]

Here we see the problem with the appeal-to-relative. I don't usually go about personally insulting people's relatives and yet simply by rejecting the superstition declared above shend's relative's competence is called into question.

Vitamin D supplements reduce the amount of calcium leeched from the bones (and excreted in urine) and actually increase our ability to absorb calcium from food. There is a reason a lot of calcium supplements also include vitamin D.

In the end, the best thing is simply sunlight.

For killing vampires yes, for getting vitamin D, not so much.