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The importance of diet and Vitamin D
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The importance of diet and Vitamin D

Emergency Medicine Consultant Dr Mirza explains that there is evidence that diet (especially Vitamin D) is important in relation to Covid-19 infections. It is especially important to consider Vitamin D supplements in the UK with little sunlight in the winter months.

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And I also add to that, that your diet is really important in all these matters, including vitamins. And there's some evidence that actually vitamin D is helpful in this, especially if you're from a black and ethnic minority communities, where we find it harder to convert the sunlight into vitamin D that is necessary. So really, especially in a country like the UK, where there's not a lot of sunlight, it becomes even more imperative that we supplement vitamin into our diet.

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