A Brief Overview on Vitamin D for Alaska Health Care Providers
State of Alaska Epidemiology Bulletin, 15 pages of text, 9 pages of references
A few highlights
- Decreased fish in diet recently, especially among youth
- Decreased vitamin D levels in youth
- Decreased vitamin D levels for pregnancy and breastfeeding
- Increased rickets
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- 744 IU vitamin D needed by Northern white teens to prevent Rickets – Jan 2011
- Alaskan Resolutions to increase vitamin D
- Eskimos evolved to get and limit Vitamin D from food
- Half a billion people live with little vitamin D from the sun – Dec 2016
- People with no UV for 6 months in the winter need at least 2000 IU of vitamin D – April 2011 not mentioned by publication on this page
- Suggest more vitamin D above the Arctic Circle – May 2013
- Alaskan natives now eat far less fish and have far lower levels of vitamin D – July 2016
published a year before the publication on this page, has the following chart