It just doesn’t stop, the stories keep pouring in. Can you imagine the number of kids unknowingly suffering from vitamin D deficiency?
“Gordon and fellow researchers discovered that 42 percent of adolescents were vitamin D deficient. Vitamin D deficiency was twice as common in teens as we assumed it would be.”
There are a couple of interesting blog posts over on The Heart Scan Blog. I enjoy reading this blog since the doc running it is on the same page as my wife on several health issues. I’d say anyone with cholesterol problems would do well to read the blog regularly.
Post #1
How much vitamin D should I take
Post#2
Some basic vitamin D issues
It’s turning out to be a very nice sunny September around here. I am noticing a lot of long shadows for the bulk of the day, which some folks use to gauge if it’s a good vitamin D day or not. Long shadows equal poor vitamin D rays since the sun is not high in the sky. Still, after the blink of a summer we had, I’ll take it!
Yet another new study about vitamin D and children
More than 93% of youth in each age and sex group had suboptimal vitamin D concentrations.
Read the entire article - Low Vitamin D Status in a Representative Sample of Youth From Quebec, Canada
CONCLUSIONS: Inadequate vitamin D status is a potentially serious public health problem among children and adolescents in Quebec. Youth living at high latitudes in countries with and without mandatory fortification of vitamin D are likely at heightened risk of 25(OH)D deficiency. These results call for renewed efforts to ensure adequate vitamin D intake among growing children and adolescents.
Here’s more about low vitamin D and kids….
Vitamin D shifts into focus - Research shows that (vitamin D) defect can be troubling, especially among children. (Source Reuters)
The Benefits of vitamin D make Time Magazines Top 10 medical breakthroughs for 2007!
Giving school children very high doses of vitamin D is safe, and may be necessary to bring their blood levels of the nutrient up to the amount necessary for optimum bone growth and health, a new study shows.
Study backs low vitamin D-diabetes link
People with lower levels of vitamin D in their blood may be at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to research published in the journal Epidemiology this month.
One update from our clinic. We see things like this all of the time now, but I thought I would mention it. We just checked a D level on a patient who was having trouble maintaining an adequate vitamin D level on 10,000 IU’s last year. She’s now been on 15,000 IU’s daily for the past 6 months and is maintaining nicely right in the middle of the range at 60ng/ML. This type of finding re-enforces the importance of having your doctor re-check your D levels and not just assume anything about dosing. It certainly appears not to be a one dose fits all nutrient!
