Compared to 100 years ago: far less vit. D in bacon, lard, pies, chicken, turkey, eggs . .
Useful Vitamin D from meat and eggs is ~6X higher than previously realized
3X less vitamin D absorbed from Non-Fat milk than full fat
3X less vitamin D in farmed salmon than wild salmon
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If you have a disease associated with low Vit D take Vit D
Raising your Vit D levels will substantially prevent other low-Vit D health problems
Proof that Vitamin D Works Getting Vitamin D into your body
Books and Videos
Reasons for low response to vitamin D Why are doctors reluctant
Cancer studies include: Breast
Colds and flu Dark Skin
COVID-19 treated by Vitamin D - studies, reports, videos
See also Vitamin D home fortification- don't wait 100 years for your govt
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- wiki page:
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Biofortification with Vitamin D - several studies
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CRISPER-edited tomato leaves have 8,000 IU of vitamin D3 per gram - May 2022
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Vitamin D: not one size, type, form, route for all - Jan 2022
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Honey contains a form of Vitamin D which is rarely measured
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Salmon dinners (400 IU Vitamin D daily) not enough to stop winter decline (Norway) – RCT Nov 2019
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Lower Vitamin D if less food from the sea (Greenland in this case) – Oct 2019
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Bio-engineered Salmon raised in tanks can be sold in US restaurants – July 2019
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Vitamin D Myths - OTHER
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2 Australian eggs might provide all of your daily Vitamin D needs – May 2019
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Salmon and IU of Vitamin D per 100 g – Baltic 760, North Sea 360, Farmed 200 – April 2019
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Eat eggs to get of good level of vitamin D (need to eat 35 daily) – Jan 2019
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Some plants accumulate Vitamin D3 or active Vitamin D3 (calcitriol) – Dec 2018
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None of the Czech groups got the recommended Vitamin D from food – Oct 2018
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Hens with Vitamin D were better in at least 5 ways – RCT Aug 2018
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Vitamin D fortification of cattle would provide you only 80 IU – Aug 2018
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Vitamin D in food not decreased as much by cooking when lemon juice added – Feb 2018
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Egg vitamin D levels are not permitted to be restored to levels before chickens were raised indoors – Feb 2017
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Vitamin D content of pork increased 3X with about 10 hours of noonday sun – Nov 2017
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Full-fat milk for children associated with higher Vitamin D and lower BMI – Dec 2016
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Farmed fish have 2X less Omega-3, 4X less Vitamin D – May 2017
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Vitamin D infographic - Vitamin D Foods Org - 2014
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Farmed salmon is the most toxic food known
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Lard fed to rats has more vitamin D and Omega-3 than does shortening – Dec 2015
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Vitamin D does not occur naturally in many whole foods - only 1 in 3 Canadians were aware of this
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Fish in school lunches added 36 IU of vitamin D and raised blood level in winter by 2 ng – Oct 2015
-
Vegans get very little vitamin D- only 17 percent get at least 400 IU - Sept 2015
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Fatty Fish in diet increases vitamin D level a few nanograms – meta-analysis Sept 2015
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Swedish people in far North have OK vitamin D levels (perhaps from diet) – May 2015
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Cost of getting 400 IU of vitamin D from food has risen much faster than CPI – April 2015
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Cooked mushrooms (Vitamin D2) did not increase vitamin D serum levels – Aug 2014
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Greenlanders – higher vitamin D if eat more Inuit foods (fatty fish, etc) – Aug 2013
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Elderly 3X more likely to have 30 ng of vitamin D if frequently eat fatty fish, eggs – Aug 2013
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Getting Vitamin D into your body
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Vitamin D content of over 400 types of food
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More vegetables or fish, less Cancer – June 2014
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Vitamin D2 from food – perhaps 80 IU daily – April 2014
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Vitamin D from animal increases 6X when consider that already processed by animal livers
-
Farmed fish not have enough vitamin D to increase levels – RCT Feb 2014
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Food Sources and Vitamin D
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Solanum glaucophyllum (a purple flower) produces active vitamin D3
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Photobiology of vitamin D in mushrooms and its bioavailability in humans – Jan 2013
-
Free-range chicken eggs have at least 3X more vitamin D – Oct 2013
-
Cooking reduces vitamin D content by about 30 percent – Oct 2013
-
Speculation on additional sources of vitamin D: UVC, Xray, plants – Sept 2013
-
11,000 IU vitamin D daily from traditional Norwegian diet of cod, cod liver, cod-liver oil, and roe – 2004
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"Free Range Lard" has lots of vitamin D and is good for you
-
Vitamin D in US eggs: 2 to 18 IU – March 2013
-
UVB on legs of chickens resulted in 70 IU vitamin D per egg yoke – July 2013
-
Vitamin D from animal products - July 2013
-
Various plants have vitamin D3 and D2 – review May 2013
-
Vitamin D in edable portions of animals
-
Food sources for Vitamin D
-
Health benefits of seafood: Vitamin D, Omega-3, and Selenium – Jan 2013
-
Contributions of Sunlight and Diet to Vitamin D Status - Sept 2012
-
Little vitamin D in various types of milk – Oct 2012
-
Free-range bacon has 2800 IU of vitamin D per 100 grams
-
Vitamin A and dioxin-like compounds in fish liver, etc may block vitamin D – July 2012
-
Cod liver oil rarely has vitamin D from the liver or even from the cod
-
Alkaline diet is synergistic with vitamin D – Oct 2011
-
vitamin D content in foods - 2002
-
Free range eggs have 4X as much vitamin D
-
Japanese men eating small fish were 32 percent less likely to get diabetes – Aug 2011
-
Increasing the ratio of mono to poly fats increased Vitamin D levels by 6 ng – RCT Aug 2011
-
6 days of 7,000,000 IU of vitamin D improved the resulting beef – June 2011
-
Mushroom vitamin D2 update – 200 to 1000 IU per 100 gram – June 2011
-
Plants and UVB
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Expect some food to have more vitamin D in 2012
-
Soup with UVB irradiated mushrooms added 8 ng to vitamin D blood levels – May 2011
-
A fish a day keeps the doctor away – Japan 2002
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Increased vitamin D in food without fortification – March 2011
-
"Free range" lard has 500 IU vitamin D per teaspoon
-
Can triple the vitamin D in carrots - Jan 2011
-
Vegan vitamin D levels are only 22 ng – Feb 2011
-
80 percent of vitamin D from sun rather than from food – Nov 2010
-
200000 IU vitamin D daily can result in Hypervitaminosis in weeks – 1992
-
Diets lack micronutrients such as vitamin D - June 2010
-
Hypothesis - Reduced food nutrition has reduced our health
-
Breakfast cereals have a small amount of vitamin D
-
Not much change in vitamin D levels with vegetarian diet – May 2009
-
Spinach adds Vitamins C D E and K in a few days under supermarket light - Mar 2010
-
Actual vitamin D intake just 200 IU daily - 2010
-
Vitamin D from mushrooms: a review on optimisation of the process
-
UVB increased Vitamin D2 in mushrooms
-
Apparently cods have too much variation in their liver oil nowdays
-
Even more growth predicted for vitamin D market - March 2010
-
Vitamin D in Foods: Development of the USDA Database
-
Calcium in food increased much more than Magnesium in recent decades April 2010
-
Winter babies are more prone to food allergies
-
Spike mushrooms with vitamin D
-
Eskimos evolved to get and limit Vitamin D from food
See also web
- My Food Data - Cereals 2018 - the URL has vitamin D for a huge number of different foods, beverages
about 40-100 IU of vitamin D per serviing for the cereals with the highest fortification
only slightly more if use skim instead of whole milk
Skim fat milk provides 3% less vitamin D – May 2016
Food Sources and Vitamin D
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- Biofortification with Vitamin D - several studies
- CRISPER-edited tomato leaves have 8,000 IU of vitamin D3 per gram - May 2022
- Vitamin D: not one size, type, form, route for all - Jan 2022
- Honey contains a form of Vitamin D which is rarely measured
- Salmon dinners (400 IU Vitamin D daily) not enough to stop winter decline (Norway) – RCT Nov 2019
- Lower Vitamin D if less food from the sea (Greenland in this case) – Oct 2019
- Bio-engineered Salmon raised in tanks can be sold in US restaurants – July 2019
- Vitamin D Myths - OTHER
- 2 Australian eggs might provide all of your daily Vitamin D needs – May 2019
- Salmon and IU of Vitamin D per 100 g – Baltic 760, North Sea 360, Farmed 200 – April 2019
- Eat eggs to get of good level of vitamin D (need to eat 35 daily) – Jan 2019
- Some plants accumulate Vitamin D3 or active Vitamin D3 (calcitriol) – Dec 2018
- None of the Czech groups got the recommended Vitamin D from food – Oct 2018
- Hens with Vitamin D were better in at least 5 ways – RCT Aug 2018
- Vitamin D fortification of cattle would provide you only 80 IU – Aug 2018
- Vitamin D in food not decreased as much by cooking when lemon juice added – Feb 2018
- Egg vitamin D levels are not permitted to be restored to levels before chickens were raised indoors – Feb 2017
- Vitamin D content of pork increased 3X with about 10 hours of noonday sun – Nov 2017
- Full-fat milk for children associated with higher Vitamin D and lower BMI – Dec 2016
- Farmed fish have 2X less Omega-3, 4X less Vitamin D – May 2017
- Vitamin D infographic - Vitamin D Foods Org - 2014
- Farmed salmon is the most toxic food known
- Lard fed to rats has more vitamin D and Omega-3 than does shortening – Dec 2015
- Vitamin D does not occur naturally in many whole foods - only 1 in 3 Canadians were aware of this
- Fish in school lunches added 36 IU of vitamin D and raised blood level in winter by 2 ng – Oct 2015
- Vegans get very little vitamin D- only 17 percent get at least 400 IU - Sept 2015
- Fatty Fish in diet increases vitamin D level a few nanograms – meta-analysis Sept 2015
- Swedish people in far North have OK vitamin D levels (perhaps from diet) – May 2015
- Cost of getting 400 IU of vitamin D from food has risen much faster than CPI – April 2015
- Cooked mushrooms (Vitamin D2) did not increase vitamin D serum levels – Aug 2014
- Greenlanders – higher vitamin D if eat more Inuit foods (fatty fish, etc) – Aug 2013
- Elderly 3X more likely to have 30 ng of vitamin D if frequently eat fatty fish, eggs – Aug 2013
- Getting Vitamin D into your body
- Vitamin D content of over 400 types of food
- More vegetables or fish, less Cancer – June 2014
- Vitamin D2 from food – perhaps 80 IU daily – April 2014
- Vitamin D from animal increases 6X when consider that already processed by animal livers
- Farmed fish not have enough vitamin D to increase levels – RCT Feb 2014
- Food Sources and Vitamin D
- Solanum glaucophyllum (a purple flower) produces active vitamin D3
- Photobiology of vitamin D in mushrooms and its bioavailability in humans – Jan 2013
- Free-range chicken eggs have at least 3X more vitamin D – Oct 2013
- Cooking reduces vitamin D content by about 30 percent – Oct 2013
- Speculation on additional sources of vitamin D: UVC, Xray, plants – Sept 2013
- 11,000 IU vitamin D daily from traditional Norwegian diet of cod, cod liver, cod-liver oil, and roe – 2004
- "Free Range Lard" has lots of vitamin D and is good for you
- Vitamin D in US eggs: 2 to 18 IU – March 2013
- UVB on legs of chickens resulted in 70 IU vitamin D per egg yoke – July 2013
- Vitamin D from animal products - July 2013
- Various plants have vitamin D3 and D2 – review May 2013
- Vitamin D in edable portions of animals
- Food sources for Vitamin D
- Health benefits of seafood: Vitamin D, Omega-3, and Selenium – Jan 2013
- Contributions of Sunlight and Diet to Vitamin D Status - Sept 2012
- Little vitamin D in various types of milk – Oct 2012
- Free-range bacon has 2800 IU of vitamin D per 100 grams
- Vitamin A and dioxin-like compounds in fish liver, etc may block vitamin D – July 2012
- Cod liver oil rarely has vitamin D from the liver or even from the cod
- Alkaline diet is synergistic with vitamin D – Oct 2011
- vitamin D content in foods - 2002
- Free range eggs have 4X as much vitamin D
- Japanese men eating small fish were 32 percent less likely to get diabetes – Aug 2011
- Increasing the ratio of mono to poly fats increased Vitamin D levels by 6 ng – RCT Aug 2011
- 6 days of 7,000,000 IU of vitamin D improved the resulting beef – June 2011
- Mushroom vitamin D2 update – 200 to 1000 IU per 100 gram – June 2011
- Plants and UVB
- Expect some food to have more vitamin D in 2012
- Soup with UVB irradiated mushrooms added 8 ng to vitamin D blood levels – May 2011
- A fish a day keeps the doctor away – Japan 2002
- Increased vitamin D in food without fortification – March 2011
- "Free range" lard has 500 IU vitamin D per teaspoon
- Can triple the vitamin D in carrots - Jan 2011
- Vegan vitamin D levels are only 22 ng – Feb 2011
- 80 percent of vitamin D from sun rather than from food – Nov 2010
- 200000 IU vitamin D daily can result in Hypervitaminosis in weeks – 1992
- Diets lack micronutrients such as vitamin D - June 2010
- Hypothesis - Reduced food nutrition has reduced our health
- Breakfast cereals have a small amount of vitamin D
- Not much change in vitamin D levels with vegetarian diet – May 2009
- Spinach adds Vitamins C D E and K in a few days under supermarket light - Mar 2010
- Actual vitamin D intake just 200 IU daily - 2010
- Vitamin D from mushrooms: a review on optimisation of the process
- UVB increased Vitamin D2 in mushrooms
- Apparently cods have too much variation in their liver oil nowdays
- Even more growth predicted for vitamin D market - March 2010
- Vitamin D in Foods: Development of the USDA Database
- Calcium in food increased much more than Magnesium in recent decades April 2010
- Winter babies are more prone to food allergies
- Spike mushrooms with vitamin D
- Eskimos evolved to get and limit Vitamin D from food
See also web
- My Food Data - Cereals 2018 - the URL has vitamin D for a huge number of different foods, beverages
about 40-100 IU of vitamin D per serviing for the cereals with the highest fortification
only slightly more if use skim instead of whole milk
Skim fat milk provides 3% less vitamin D – May 2016
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