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Got Vitamin D?
Posted on October 13, 2008
Vitamin D is the miracle vitamin du jour. This week, the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition doubled its recommended intake of vitamin D from 200 to 400 IUs (international units)/day.Why the change? I wrote about this 2 years ago (Vitamin D, Infants and Teenagers) and, as far as I can tell, it's not because there have been any new important studies.Rather, it has just gotten clearer that vitamin D is good stuff; that when taken in infancy and childhood it promotes strong bones lasting into adulthood; that it may even play a role in preventing such nasty adult diseases as diab...
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