A balanced diet is no longer enough – supplements needed - VitaminDWiki Oct 2012

The amount of Vitamin D, Magnesium, etc. no longer even gets to the level of the RDA

And, the RDA is somewhat similar to the minimum wage, not enough to live on

And there is a huge interaction between Vitamin D, Magnesium and Vitamin K2

There has been at least a 2X reduction in the amount of

• Vitamin D 33 reasons, which include:
  People are indoors more, pigs are indoors, chickens are indoors, fish are farmed (4X less vitamin D),
  People consume less cholesterol, polyunsaturated foods,
  More people are lactose intolerant and do not get vitamin D from milk
• Magnesium for reasons such as
  Chemical fertilizers have far less Magnesium
  Far less Magnesium in bottled or softened waters
  80% less Magnesium in refined wheat
  Magnesium blocked by increased use of Calcium supplements and Fluoride
  Little Magnesium remains after sugar is refined
  80% less Magnesium in white vs brown rice
• Vitamin K2
  Cattle often now eat corn instead of grass
  Farmed fish have much less Vitamin K2 (Fish on farms typically are fed grain, not krill)
     Farmed salmon have 4X less vitamin D. Wonder about Magnesium.
• Omega-3 Fatty Acids
  Far less Omega-3 fatty acids from cows fed on grains than on grass
  Far more (bad) Omega-6 fatty acids from Corn, soy products
  Eat less fish, and farmed fish have far less Omega-3
    Omega-6 fatty acids trippled from 7 grams in 1909 to 25 grams in 1985
    The Queen of Fats: Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet . .
• Mineral decrease from vegetables in the past century
  Reduced calcium, magnesium, and iron in cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes, and spinach.

Vitamin D3 in a nutshell

See also VitaminDWiki

• Overview How Much vitamin D
• Vitamin D home fortification- don't wait 100 years for your govt
• Low cost cofactors for vitamin D
• How much vitamin D and other nutrients do I take
• Primates Nutrient Requirements – 2003
• Magnesium etc. reduced in crops (must supplement) – 2009
• Magnesium and Vitamin D category listing has 365 items along with related searches
• All items in category Fortification with vitamin D 135 items
• Consumerlabs Supplement Survey – Highlights Feb 2013 56% more of people survied say they are buying vitamin D

See also web

• 20th Century Drop in Nutrient Levels of Food May 2010
  Hypothesis: Increased crop yields ignores decrease in nutrients
• Changes in USDA Food Composition Data for 43 Garden Crops, 1950 to 1999 J Am Coll Nutr December 2004
  Decrease: protein (6%), Ca, P, Fe, ascorbic acid, and riboflavin (38%)
  Does not consider decrease in meat, fish, dairy, nor food processing
• Is Conventional Produce Declining in Nutritional Value? March 2001
  Examples: 50% less calcium in broccoli, 88% less iron in Watercress, cauliflower down 40% in vitamin C content-all since 1975.
  30% less vitamin C in sweet peppers
  The National Academy of Sciences has issued an alert that it takes twice as many vegetables to get the daily requirement of vitamin A as previously thought.
• Evidence on declining fruit and vegetable nutrient composition Feb 2009
  As a result of artificial fertilizer all mineral concentrations declined, except for phosphorus
• Multivitamins May Help Prevent Cancer WebMD Oct 2012
  8% less all cancers in placebo controlled 11 year trial with 15,000 men taking Centrum Silver
  12% reduction in the incidence of cancers other than prostate
  Centrum Silver ingredients
      had been only 400 IU of Vitamin D, 100 mg of Magnesium, and 10 mcg of vitamin K
      Centrum in 2012 has increased Vitamin D and tripled Vitamin K (probably not K2) to 30 mcg, but halved Magnesium to 50 mg
     VitaminDWiki expects that results would have been far better if Centrum Silver had 2000 IU of vitamin D, 100 mcg of Vitamin K2, and 300 mg of Magnesium
        VitaminDWiki Overview of Cancer and Vitamin D