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 [...]
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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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