"4000 IU Vitamin D Daily Cuts Preterm Birth Risk in Half"

Fascinating, and with no adverse reactions.  (Follow the link to the underlying article...)

What's scary about this story is the following (from the Vancouver Sun article):

"'The concern of giving too much vitamin D in the past was based on wrong studies,' says Gagnon, also director of maternal fetal medicine and obstetrics at McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal.

"For decades, vitamin D was thought to be a teratogen — an agent that cause birth defects — after reports from the U.K. emerged in the 1960s of babies born with heart defects, mental disabilities and elf-like facial features. The babies were found to have high levels of calcium, which doctors attributed to too much vitamin D, since the vitamin helps the body absorb calcium.

"What they discovered years later — through genetic technology — was the children had Williams syndrome, a rare disorder caused by deleted genes that affects how babies metabolize vitamin D, leading to higher levels. The conditions weren't a symptom of too much vitamin D but rather a genetic syndrome.

"'For 30-plus years it was dogma that (vitamin D in pregnancy) was dangerous, that you didn't need very much and what you did need you could get from just casual sunlight exposure,' Wagner said. 'What we know now, from a decade of very intensive research, is that that's not the case.'"

Whoops.  So that's saturated fat and vitamin D, both in one year, going from bad to good, or at least neutral.  How many more of these are there?