Recommended Daily Vitamin D Intake Gets a Boost

Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 18:30 in Health & Medicine

Vitamin D deficiency has become something of a health bugaboo in recent years, especially after a 2009 study that declared three quarters of U.S. adults and teenagers deficient. Low levels of the vitamin--which is manufactured by the body when sunlight hits the skin and can be found in some fatty fish and fortified food products --have been linked to disparate conditions, such as a sluggish immune system and psychosis . [More]

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