Current vitamin D recommendations fraction of safe, perhaps essential levels for children
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 09:35
in Health & Medicine
The current recommended daily allowance (RDA) of vitamin D for children is 200 International Units (IUs), but new research reveals that children may need and can safely take ten-times that amount. According to a recently accepted report in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM), this order-of-magnitude increase could improve the bone health of children worldwide and may have other long-term health benefits...
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