Pediatricians say: more vitamin D for kids
The American Academy of Pediatrics has doubled its recommended daily dose of vitamin D for kids (from breastfeeding infants to teens). The new recommendation is 400 IU/day.
Kids are getting inadequate vitamin D to build bones strong enough to last a lifetime, and researchers continue to discover new ways in which the vitamin improves human health (e.g. strengthening the immune system).
More on vitamin D here.
Kids are getting inadequate vitamin D to build bones strong enough to last a lifetime, and researchers continue to discover new ways in which the vitamin improves human health (e.g. strengthening the immune system).
More on vitamin D here.
posted by michael at 11:30 AM
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This new recommendation is still far too low to have any significant impact.
It totally misses the point that our bodies evolved over 2million years spent for the most part naked and outdoors. We know breast milk does flow replete with vitamin D in those circumstances but today's mothers do not have vitamin D replete milk because spending time naked or even half naked is not the custom while at work in current society. To make up the deficit and have breast milk flowing with D3 as we evolved requires on average 6400iu/daily/D3.
Infants and children under the age of one, should obtain a total of 1,000 IU (25mcg) per day
Children over the age of 1 year, and less than 4 years of age, should take 1,500 IU vitamin D per day, depending on body weight, latitude or residence, skin pigmentation, and sun exposure.
Children over the age of 4, and less than 10 years of age, should take 2,000 IU per day, unless they get significant sun exposure. On the days they are outside in the sun, they do not need to take any; in the winter they will need to take 2,000 IU every day.
Children over 10 and adults should take an average of 2000iu a day year around if you have some sun exposure. If you have little or no sun exposure, you will need to take more than 2,000 IU per day, how much more depends on your latitude of residence, skin pigmentation, and body weight. Generally speaking, the further you live away from the equator, the darker your skin, and the more you weigh, the more you will have to take to maintain healthy blood levels.
Dr Davis of the Heartscanblog working in Wisconsin finds it take the average woman 5000iu/daily and average man 6000iu/daily to reach 60-70ng. 150+ nmol/l.
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