Current Vitamin D Recommendations Fraction Of Safe, Perhaps Essential Levels For Children
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 08:28
in Health & Medicine
The current recommended daily allowance of vitamin D for children is 200 International Units, but new research reveals that children may need and can safely take ten-times that amount. According to a recent article in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 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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