Are You Getting Enough Vitamin D?
Are you aware that too little vitamin D from the sun may increase the risk of rickets, cancer, heart disease and diabetes? Research at Harvard Medical School found 24% of adolescents deficient in Vitamin D.
Dr. Catherine Gordon, a pediatrician at The Harvard Medical School, Gordon and her colleagues tested Vitamin D levels of 307 teenagers between 11 and 18 years of age.
24 per cent of these adolescents of both sexes were deficient in vitamin D. The findings were recently reported in The Endocrinology Society.
Vitamin D deficiency is not just limited to the house bound or elderly in nursing homes.
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