The Public Health and Economic Benefits of Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
New England Journal of Medicine - Oct 2009
| Goal | Child (>4) gets an average of at least 1,500 IU Vitamin D/day |
| Method | Add 50,000 IU of Vitamin D to their beverage/food once a month |
Tasteless, water-soluble vitamin D can be added to virtually any food or beverage
See also Vitamin D Life
- Low fat milk provides 2.5 times less vitamin D – May 2016
- Vitamin D home fortification- don't wait 100 years for your govt
- Typically takes a century for govts to fortify food with nutrients (like vitamin D)
- 1600 IU is needed by Infants - 3 JAMA studies
- Milk fortification of 1000 IU got most children above 20ng of vitamin D – March 2013
- Need more than 1,000 IU daily average
- Vitamin D – water-soluble is far more absorbable than fat-soluble – Nov 2016
- One pill every two weeks gives you all the vitamin D most adults need
- same one 50,000 IU pill every 4 weeks for child (age >4)
- For younger child use only a portion of a pill
- Child will get all of the vitamin D needed for just 20 cents per month