(NaturalNews) The news is out: Vitamin D is better than the swine flu vaccine at halting H1N1 infections. In fact, without vitamin D, chances are that a vaccine won't generate much of an immune response in the first place.That's because vitamin D is essential for healthy, active immune function. That's just one of the reasons smart people are choosing vitamin D instead of the swine flu vaccine. Here are nineteen more reasons:#1 Vitamin D activates your immune system to respond toviral exposure (not just one virus).#2 Vitamin D naturally belongs in your body.#3 Vitamin D has been functioning as medicine in the human body since the beginning of the human species.#4 Vitamin D is available right now and there's no shortage of it.#5 Vitamin D won't cause your brain to swell and put you into a coma.#6 Vitamin D doesn't require an injection with a scary needle.#7 Vitamin D is found naturally in many foods such as sardines or salmon.#8 Vitamin D has a perfect safety record. No one ever died from consuming it.#9 Vitamin D is affordable. You can even get it for free (from sunlight).#10 Vitamin D doesn't contain viral fragments from diseased animals (like vaccines often do).#11 Vitamin D doesn't contain thimerosal or other chemical preservatives.#12 Vitamin D doesn't need a warning sheet describing possible side effects.#13 Vitamin D doesn't hurt your arm when you take it.#14 Vitamin D also improves sugar metabolism, bone density and healthy moods.#15 Vitamin D is safe for the environment.#16 Vitamin D doesn't contain squalene or other inflammatory adjuvant chemicals.#17 Vitamin D works on everyone and is safe for everyone, including infants and children.#18 Vitamin D is made in nature, not a laboratory.#19 Vitamin D is found naturally in breast milk.#20 You can walk, and chew gum, and generate vitamin D from sunshine all at the same time!Skip the vaccine.And here's a little limerick I wrote about the swine flu vaccine that you might enjoy: