1 in 5 kids get little vitamin D, study says

Associated Press ^ | Oct 26, 2009 | LINDSEY TANNER

[decimon]

CHICAGO – At least one in five U.S. children aged 1 to 11 don't get enough vitamin D and could be at risk for a variety of health problems including weak bones, the most recent national analysis suggests.

By a looser measure, almost 90 percent of black children that age and 80 percent of Hispanic kids could be vitamin D deficient — "astounding numbers" that should serve as a call to action, said Dr. Jonathan Mansbach, lead author of the new analysis and a researcher at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital in Boston.

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The body also makes vitamin D when sunlight hits the skin, but many children don't spend enough time outdoors. That's one reason why lower vitamin D levels are found in children living in colder climates and those with darker skin, which absorbs less sunlight.

[Scythian]

Nah, soy is crap, garbage poison, you can get real protien very cheap from this place, I love it, the stuff is great.

http://www.trueprotein.com/Product_Details.aspx?cid=22&pid=64

Scroll down and look at the label, it’s loaded with Amino acids and sulfurs, all very good for you.

Here is their main site, don’t eat soy folks, it’s bad news ...

[Mase]

In fact, soy is so bad for you that the healthiest and longest living people on the planet are also the ones consuming the most soy per-capita on the planet. A whopping twelve percent of the diet of elder Okinawans is made up of soy and they experience 80% less breast cancer and prostate cancer than we do in addition to showing less than half the ovarian and colon cancer that we do. They also experience 80% fewer heart attacks.

I don't doubt you'll want to dismiss the Okinawa Centenarian research but it will be pretty hard for you to ignore this 25 year study and explain to us why the people eating the most soy are the healthiest and longest living people on the planet.

Who ever thought a diet high in "garbage", "poison" and "crap" could deliver those kinds of results?

[Scythian]

First, Japan rejects GMO pharming, all our soy is GMO and has foreign DNA in it from other animals, plants, and soil bacterium. Second, the Japanese eat on average 13 gram’s of Iodine per day, the US RDA is 150 mcg (that’s Micrograms), they also do many other healthy things like eat seafood regulary and so on, their diet is not pre-packaged garbage for the most part. The Iodine definitely counters the damage the soy would do the endoctrine system. By and large, American’s are a walking disease waiting to die a needless death ...

[Scythian]

Sorry, I meant 13 mg (milligrams) whereas we get less that 150 mcg (most get absolutey zero iodine a day)

[jwalsh07]

I get skin cancer.

Me too.

My doc advised me to stay out of the sun for the rest of my life.

My surgeon and fellow NRA gun guy says life is meant to be lived. Enjoy golf and the beach but be sensible. And come and see me every November.

So far so good. I enjoy life and he enjoys the money I pay him to excise those nasty little runaway cells.

[Mase]

First, Japanese rejection of any genetically modified food is a form of protectionism. If you understand anything about the Japanese food industry (and I assure you that am intimately familiar with both the Japanese diet and their food production industry) you know that they protect their domestic producers by any means necessary. Just like in Europe, the fear of GM products is based purely on politics and has nothing to do with science.

Now you're trying to explain away the foolishness about soy from your previous post by pleading with us to believe that iodine consumption counters the damage that soy consumption wreaks on our physiology. Good luck with that. The Okinawans live longer healthier lives than anyone else on the planet while consuming more soy, per-capita, than any other people on the planet. So much for soy being "crap", "garbage" and "poison", although those first two descriptors aptly reflect your understanding of the subject.

[grey_whiskers]

In either case (A or D), what was the source of the hypervitaminosis? What dosage per day had the patients been taking, for how long; and what was their body weight?

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

What the treating physicians did not realize, was that the parathyroid gland damage is often transient and may recover in several days. Both of these patients received three weeks of high dose calcium gluconate orally, and Vitamin D. (ergocalciferol or D2) Probably 2-3 grams daily. Activation of Vitamin D to 25 hydroxy form is not rate limited in the liver and is totally dependent on how much precursor is available. So both of these patients must have had massively elevated serum levels, but that test was not available at the time.

Fair enough; but what then do you say of people who don't have damaged parathyroids to come back on line; who are taking D3, not D2; and are taking 2000 IU a day (in other words, 50 μg a day, not 2-3 grams)?

Not quite the same thing...? Cheers!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[CholeraJoe]

In either case (A or D), what was the source of the hypervitaminosis?

Post 25 goes into detail about the 2 hyper D patients. One hyper A patient was given large doses of Vitamin A by her doctor for Acne. She survived, but not without months of misery. The other one took huge doses herself as a suicide attempt after reading about Arctic explorers who died from hypervitaminosis A after eating polar bear liver. She didn't survive.

[oprahstheantichrist]

Ping me if you find one, please. I want on!

[oprahstheantichrist]

Is that primarily for body builders?

[1010RD]

Didn’t Art Robinson disprove the theory that C is beneficial?