Attached are 3 papers by a French author (8554,8555,8556)
Fact: 800 IU added to elderly reduces some hip fractures
Fact: More than 800 IU reduces far more fractures
Premise: Fortify dairy products in France so as to add 800 IU of vitamin D daily into elderly
Reasons why plan will fail
- Elderly tend to drink little milk
- Most people have major problems of milk as a source of vitamin D
- If milk is consumed, it tends to be low-fat 2.5 less bio-available vitamin D in low-fat milk
- In France: “High in vitamin D” can be claimed if it has just 60 IU/100 grams
= 1300 grams of milk to get 800 IU- = 5.3 cups of full-fat milk
- = 13 cups of low-fat milk = 8/10 of a gallon)
Vitamin D Fortification in Europe
Items in both categories Fortification and Europe are listed here:
- 65% of UK govt. nutrition advisors are paid by food companies – BMJ Sept 2024
- Fortification of foods: 1200 IU Vitamin D daily is safe – Dec 2022
- Vitamin D fortification could eliminate 1 in 10 Cancer deaths in the EU – May 2022
- Vitamin D added to margarine reduced inflammatory bowel disease by 13 percent 30 years later – Nov 2019
- Vitamin D Deficiency in Europe- need at least 1000 IU to get to even 20 ng – Cashman April 2019
- Vitamin D is low in Europe – 40 percent have less than 20 ng – ODEN Oct 2018
- France wants to reduce hip fractures by drinking 10 glasses of milk daily – April 2018
- Kelloggs finally doubling the vitamin D in UK cereals (to 100 IU) – March 2018
- France is planning to reduce hip fractures by dairy vitamin D fortification (plan will not work) – 2017
- Vitamin D levels in Finland increased 2000-2011 (supplementation and fortification) – May 2017
- Vitamin D fortification is returning to Finland – now 400 IU per 100 gram of butter – Oct 2016
- Marks and Spencer (UK) is adding 80 IUs of vitamin D to sandwiches – Sept 2016
- Sweden will increase vitamin D food fortification a bit in Oct 2016
- Danes opposed to Vitamin D fortification, will get more COPD, diabetes, depression, lupus, leg pain, etc – Oct 2015
- Sweden proposes to increase Vitamin D fortification to US levels - May 2015
- Schizophrenia increased 40 percent for Spring births after Danes stopped vitamin D fortification – April 2014
- Vitamin D fortification of milk helps (proven in Gemany this time) – RCT Dec 2013
- ODIN: Europeans study vitamin D fortification and testing
- Sweden has fortified low-fat milk with a small amount of vitamin D since 1983
- Germany does not fortify ANY food with vitamin D, is considering 1000 IU from bread – Nov 2013
- Danish study of childhood diseases vs vitamin D fortification – May 2013
- UK Milk producer sets vitamin D day, yet UK milk rarely has vitamin D – March 31 2013
- Can fortify food with 1000 IU of vitamin D - Italy, March 2013
- Vitamin D review from Ireland - April 2012
Vitamin D Fortification in France as of 2014
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- Vitamin D home fortification- don't wait 100 years for your govt
- Drinking 3 glasses of milk daily associated with doubling the death rate – Oct 2014
- Low fat milk provides 2.5 times less vitamin D – May 2016
- Overview Fractures and vitamin D
- France wants to reduce hip fractures by drinking 10 glasses of milk daily – April 2018
- Yet again, 800 IU of vitamin D was found to be barely enough to help bones – Lancet Oct 2013
- Fracture risk reduced somewhat by 800 IU of vitamin D and Calcium – meta-analysis Oct 2015
- Bone fractures reduced by a minimum of 800 IU vitamin D and Calcium – meta-meta-analysis March 2014
- Reducing fractures with Vitamin D and Calcium saves 3 dollars for 1 dollar invested – Europe Feb 2017
- Total hip replacement: 14 times more likely to redo if low vitamin D – March 2017
- 7 X more likely to get hip fracture if have highest level of vitamin A – Jan 2003
Excessive Vitamin A (such as from some cod-liver oil) blocks Vitamin D - Elderly should not have more than 40 ng of vitamin D (if infrequent dosing or fail to adjust cofactors) Aug 2017
- Note: Extremely unlikely to get > 40 with a few glasses of vitamin D fortified milk
- Hip fracture risk reduced 6 percent for each daily dairy serving (more if full-fat dairy) – Oct 2017