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1 posted on 05/04/2014 6:17:42 PM PDT by blam

2 posted on 05/04/2014 6:18:21 PM PDT by blam

The article seems to take the position that the deficiency - while it may cause other symptom - is a result of other factors.

4 posted on 05/04/2014 6:22:21 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)

5 gallons of whole milk and being in the sun every day doesn’t help mine one bit.

I fell on my head from 8’, broke my back and ripped all the muscle out of my back and by the end of the day it hurts like hell.

my bones are strong and don’t break, even at 76.

5 posted on 05/04/2014 6:24:14 PM PDT by dalereed

The UK like Washington has very few days of sunshine. And then parents (liberals) slather their kids and themselves with #200 sun block. Washington has the most anemic vitamin D deficiency of most of the states.

6 posted on 05/04/2014 6:25:45 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Believe In The Law Until It Intereferes With Justice. And Pay Your Liberty Tax Citizen.)

Rickets.

Caused by vitamin D deficiency.

Very common among babies and children back in the depression and Word War II era.

7 posted on 05/04/2014 6:27:43 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Malaysia Flight MH370 Black Box signals reported in Bermuda Triangle)

Chronic pain since Tuesday 20 January 2009. Will vitamin D help?

8 posted on 05/04/2014 6:29:49 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))

10 posted on 05/04/2014 6:35:42 PM PDT by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period. PALIN/CRUZ 2016)

13 posted on 05/04/2014 6:45:02 PM PDT by mgist (.)

16 posted on 05/04/2014 6:50:45 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus

FWIW, five years ago I started taking 5000 iu of vitamin D3 per day. Haven’t been sick since. I realize this is 100% anecdotal, but that’s my experience. YMMV.

29 posted on 05/04/2014 7:54:26 PM PDT by upchuck (Support ABLE, the Anybody But Lindsey Effort. Yes, we are the ABLE!!)

31 posted on 05/04/2014 8:02:39 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)

43 posted on 05/04/2014 9:00:54 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)

I had no idea my wife goes by the name “Vitamin D”?!

47 posted on 05/04/2014 9:28:45 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)

Most chronic pain is from sitting and doing nothing. Old age hurts too.

51 posted on 05/04/2014 9:35:28 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), vitamin D is found naturally in only a few foods, including fish-liver oils, fatty fishes, mushrooms, egg yolks and liver. In the US, however, vitamin D is commonly added to food products, including milk.

But one of the best ways to get vitamin D in the body is through sunlight...

And here we have a big part of the problem. The cholesterol-phobic avoid egg yolks and liver; many don't care for fatty fish or mushrooms; many adults drink little or no milk; and many avoid sunlight (either because they fear skin cancer, or because they are vampires). Many take fish oil tablets, but note that that's nearly the concentration of vitamin D as fish-liver oil. Do parents still give their kids codfish liver oil, or is that now considered child abuse?

Personally, I do eat "fatty" fish -- generally deep-water fish like tuna -- and egg yolks, and mushrooms, and I get plenty of sun (mostly by tooling around in my roadster, which involves no exercise, but at least I get my natural vitamin D). Even so, on my doc's advice, I take 3000 IUs a day.

57 posted on 05/05/2014 5:46:41 AM PDT by southernnorthcarolina ("The power to tax is the power to destroy." -- Chief Justice John Marshall, 1819)

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