The Essential Vitamin D

High stress and the growing care to avoid sunlight may increase the need for vitamin D or UV-B sunlight and calcium.

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Vitamin D is both a vitamin and a hormone. It's a vitamin to absorb calcium which can not be done without it; it's a hormone because your body manufactures it in response to your skin's exposure to sunlight.

Strong evidence tells us that the combination of vitamin D and calcium supplements can be quite helpful in preventing and treating osteoporosis.

• After age 30, men and women naturally begin to lose bone mass. You can slow bone loss and possibly prevent osteoporosis by eating a diet rich in calcium and vitamin D.
• Getting enough calcium and vitamin D is especially critical for women in the first few years after menopause, when bone mass is lost more rapidly.
• Most Americans get only half the calcium they need from their diet. If you do not get enough calcium from the foods you eat, take calcium and vitamin D supplements. The body needs vitamin D to absorb calcium.
• If you are diagnosed with osteoporosis, you should take calcium and vitamin D supplements in addition to any other medication prescribed by your doctor.
• Calcium is found in many foods, including dairy products such as milk or yogurt, fortified orange juice, and many vegetables.
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Requirements/Sources
As with vitamin A, dosages of vitamin D are often expressed in terms of international units (IU) rather than milligrams. The official U.S. and Canadian recommendations for daily intake of vitamin D are as follows:

• Infants 0–12 months, 200 IU (5 mcg)
• Males and females 1–50 years, 200 IU (5 mcg)
• 51–70 years, 400 IU (10 mcg)
• 71 years and older, 600 IU (15 mcg)
• Pregnant women, 200 IU (5 mcg)
• Nursing women, 200 IU (5 mcg)

Growing evidence suggests that these recommendations may be too low. For example, a study of veiled Islamic women living in Denmark found that 600 IU of vitamin D daily was insufficient to raise vitamin D levels in the blood to normal levels. The authors of this study recommend that sun-deprived individuals should receive 1,000 IU of vitamin D daily. However, this idea has not been universally accepted.

There is very little vitamin D found naturally in the foods we eat. The best sources are cold water fish. In many countries vitamin D is added to milk and other foods like breakfast cereals and margarine to increase our daily intake.

By far the best source of vitamin D is sunlight. However, current recommendations which stress sun avoidance and the use of sun block may have the unintended effect of increasing vitamin D deficiency. Severe vitamin D deficiency was common in England in the 1800s due to coal smoke obscuring the sun. During that time, cod liver oil, which is high in vitamin D, became popular as a supplement for children to help prevent rickets. Rickets is a disease caused by vitamin D deficiency in which developing bones soften and curve because they aren't receiving enough calcium.

Vitamin D deficiency is known to occur today in the elderly, who have less exposure to the sun, as well as in people who live in northern latitudes and don't drink vitamin D–enriched milk. This deficiency may increase the risk of hypertension, osteoporosis, and several forms of cancer.

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