Getting enough Vitamin D

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Getting enough Vitamin D

July 2018

Shaun Holt

Sunday 1 July 2018, 12:00 AM

Vitamin D naturally occurs in some foods in small amounts, especially in fatty fish such as tuna

Vitamin D is one of the most important vitamins required by the body and also one of the easiest to obtain naturally. Despite this, vitamin D deficiency is surprisingly common. Complementary medicines expert Shaun Holt discusses some of the recent research results looking at vitamin D

The most common way people get vitamin D is from sun exposure with an estimated 80 to 90 per cent of most people’s requirement being obtained in this

References

Knutsen KV, Brekke M, Gjelstad S, et al. (2010). Vitamin D status in patients with musculoskeletal pain, fatigue and headache: A cross-sectional descriptive study in a multi-ethnic general practice in Norway. Scand J Prim Health Care 2010;28(3):166–7
Palomer X, González‐Clemente JM, Blanco‐Vaca F, et al. Role of vitamin D in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Diabetes Obes Metab 2008;10(3):185–197.
Reis JP, von Mühlen D, Miller ER, et al. (2009). Vitamin D status and cardiometabolic risk factors in the United States adolescent population. Pediatrics 2009:124(3): e371–e79.
Vigna L, Lonati C, Sommaruga D. Vitamin D supplementation promotes weight loss and waist circumference reduction in overweight/obese adults with hypovitaminosis D. Abstract T8: PO. 110. In: 22nd European Congress on Obesity (ECO2015), Prague, Czech Republic. Obes Facts 2015;8 Suppl 1:1–272.
American Geriatrics Society Workgroup. Recommendations abstracted from the American Geriatrics Society Consensus Statement on Vitamin D for prevention of falls and their consequences. J Am Geriatr Soc 2014; 62(1):147–152.

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