"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 & Metabolism (JCEM), this order-of-magnitude increase could improve the bone health of children worldwide and may have other long-term health benefits.If they cannot get the fundamentals right, the tougher stuff will be even wrong-er.
"Our research reveals that vitamin D, at doses equivalent to 2,000 IUs a day, is not only safe for adolescents, but it is actually necessary for achieving desirable vitamin D levels," said Ghada El-Haff Fuleihan, M.D., of the American University of Beirut-Medical Center, Lebanon, and lead author of the study."
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Current Vitamin D Recommendations Merely A Fraction Of Safe And Perhaps Essential Levels For Children
Still think they have any idea what a "healthy" supplement is and how much you "need"?
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