This is from August, but I just stumbled on it. Here's a study published in Archives of Internal Medicine. 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels and the Risk of Mortality in the General Population Conclusion: The lowest quartile of 25(OH)D level (<17.8 ng/mL) is independently associated with all-cause mortality in the general population. I like this kind of science because, duh, why trade risk of one disease for another? That's the big blind spot with so much of the research surrounding obesity, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc. They associate one disease with one thing (like high cholesterol with heart disease -- but not really), only to find out that "the fix" increases risk for another disease, or worse, as in the case of low cholesterol, increases risk of...death. That's right, particularly for an elderly person. If you're patting yourself on the back over low cholesterol, studies repeatedly show that low cholesterol is associated with higher rates of dying. In other words, on average, people with high cholesterol simply live longer. So, go ahead and undertake questionable dietary habits and take questionable drugs in the pursuit of a questionable association, only to die earlier -- only not of a heart attack. Yay; you win!...