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New vitamin D guidelines for children: double the dose!

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Last Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics released its newly updated guidelines for vitamin D for children. And here’s what is recommended: vitamin D supplementation doses should be doubled!
The previous guidelines from 2003 recommended 200 IU per day of [...]

On vitamin D deficiency and vitamin supplementation for babies

A recent study gives the following disturbing statistics:

40% of American babies and toddlers don’t get enough vitamin D
12% of infants and young children are already deficient in vitamin D,
28% are at risk for vitamin D deficiency

Those especially at risk are breastfed babies. This is due to the fact that while baby formula is fortified with [...]

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