Annual Dairy Council Nutrition Lecture at Ulster University shines light on ‘sunshine superstar’ Vitamin D

The viewers was made up of over 100 vitamin college students, lecturers, and well being professionals.

Speaking on the lecture, Professor Lanham-New informed attendees the scientific information now exists to advocate vitamin D for the prevention of each higher and decrease respiratory tract infections in addition to influenza, however not for Covid-19.

Professor Lanham-New stated: “Vitamin D is crucial for bone and muscle well being and regulates greater than 200 genes within the human physique.

“Vitamin D might be discovered naturally in a small variety of meals together with eggs and oily fish; nonetheless, as a result of summer season sunshine is the principle supply of vitamin D for most individuals, taking a day by day complement consistent with HM Government suggestions (400IU /d [10 μg /d within the UK), mixed with consuming meals that present vitamin D, is especially vital for many who could also be self-isolating or confined indoors in the course of the summer season after which for everybody in the course of the winter because the UVB publicity from finish of Sept to March is of inadequate wavelength to permit vitamin D to be made within the pores and skin.”

Dr Mike Johnston MBE, Chief Executive of the Dairy Council, which has supported the lectures because the partnership started over 30 years in the past, welcomed the experience and well timed insights of Professor Lanham-New for the occasion’s first in-person lecture since 2020.

Commenting he stated: “After two years of digital lectures, we have been delighted to be again on campus at Ulster University for what was a captivating deep dive into the distinctiveness of vitamin D and additional insights into the sector of human vitamin.

“Our annual Nutrition Lecture is a celebration of the lengthy and profitable partnership between the Dairy Council and Ulster University, opening up the newest main analysis from a world scale for lecturers, vitamin college students and well being professionals.”

This is the thirty third lecture, and the annual occasion hosts a wide range of main researchers from universities around the globe who ship lectures on up to date points and rising analysis inside the discipline of human vitamin.

Professor Sean Strain OBE, Emeritus Professor of Human Nutrition, Nutrition Innovation Centre for Food and Health (NICHE), Ulster University stated the occasion has enabled entry to world-leading researchers because it first started in 1991.

He stated: “The Annual Dairy Council Nutrition Lecture represents an extended–standing relationship between the Dairy Council for Northern Ireland and Ulster University.

“The inaugural lecture happened in January 1991, adopted by a second lecture held in November of the identical yr, and is now held yearly in November or December.

“It continues to offer vital alternatives to entry among the main worldwide researchers within the discipline of human vitamin and is a spotlight of the tutorial yr on the University.”