Milk used to provide enough Vitamin D for US children
But no longer
Less Vitamin D from the sun
1) Fewer children are outdoors
air conditioning. pollution, fear of skin cancer, indoor media, security concerns
2) More children are dark-skinned
Less Vitamin D in food
3) Very few children now get full-fat milk
2.5X less Vitamin D obtained from low-fat milk
4) Less Vitamin D from fish and meat – aquatic and land-based factory farms
Less activated Vitamin D in blood
5) Decreased Magnesium in the diet – Mg used in 8 places to activate Vitamin D
Also - increased sugar in the diet decreases Mg absorption and increases Mg excretion
Even less Mg in the body if the sugar is high-fructose corn syrup
6) Increase unsaturated fats in the diet
7) Increased salt in processed foods (which reduces Magnesium)
8) Less cholesterol in the diet (to make vitamin D from the sun)
Now Need More Vitamin D
9) More children are now obese – so will need more Vitamin D
10) 30% of children today suffer with chronic disease
which consume Vitamin D and/or decrease bio-availability
Details at VitaminDWiki
- 4 Reasons why Vitamin D levels are crashing
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- Click on chart for details
- Reasons for low response to vitamin D
- Reasons for children having low vitamin D (proposed by 10 societies) - May 2018
- Many reasons why vitamin D deficiency has become epidemic
- Infant-Child category listing has
854 items along with related searches - Vitamin D Deficiency
- Incidence of 22 health problems related to vitamin D have doubled in a decade
- Criteria to associate a health problem with low vitamin D has the following chart (for adults)
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