Women who eat high amounts of vitamin D may lower their risk of
depression. "D" for Depression The list of health benefits
linked to vitamin D is rapidly growing, and a new report in the
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that women who
eat high amounts of vitamin D may lower their risk of having
depression symptoms by as much as 20%. Dietary vitamin D linked
to a healthier mood In this study, which included 81,189
postmenopausal women from the Women’s Health Initiative,
researchers used questionnaires to estimate the amount of
vitamin D that women ate and informally diagnose depression
symptoms. The results of the questionnaires, given at the
beginning of the study and three years later, showed: Women who
consumed a total of 800 IU of vitamin D or more through diet and
supplements had a 20% lower risk of having depression symptoms
compared with women who ate less than 100 IU of vitamin D. In
women who did not have depression symptoms at the beginning of
the study, those who ate 400 IU or more of