Children no longer get much vitamin D from milk - fortify at home

The Public Health and Economic Benefits of Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

New England Journal of Medicine - Oct 2009

Tasteless, water-soluble vitamin D can be added to virtually any food or beverage

See also VitaminDWiki

• Low fat (e.g. skim milk) provides less Vitamin D – May 2016

• Vitamin D home fortification- don't wait 100 years for your govt

• Typically takes a century for govts to fortify food with nutrients (like vitamin D)

• 1600 IU is needed by Infants - 3 JAMA studies

• Milk fortification of 1000 IU got most children above 20ng of vitamin D – March 2013

  • Need more than 1,000 IU daily average

• Vitamin D – water-soluble is far more absorbable than fat-soluble – Nov 2016

• One pill every two weeks gives you all the vitamin D most adults need

  • same one 50,000 IU pill every 4 weeks for child (age >4)

  • For younger child use only a portion of a pill

  • Child will get all of the vitamin D needed for just 20 cents per month