Vitamin D link to Fall Prevention

If you've got an elderly loved one in a nursing home .. heck, if an elderly loved one is living with you, consider discussing this with their physician.

A study published in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society finds nursing home residents who were given 800 IU of Vitamin D were less likely to fall compared with those given placebo or lower doses of the vitamin.

Vitamin D deficiency is associated with muscle weakness and that may be why it helped these seniors.

The study was done by at Harvard's Institute for Aging Research.