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Compared to 100 years ago: far less vit. D in bacon, lard, pies, chicken, turkey, eggs . .
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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- CRISPER-edited tomatoe 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
- 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
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
Low fat milk provides 2.5 times less vitamin D – May 2016
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