Vitamin D Is Essential For Bone Health And More

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Vitamin D is always associated with sunlight. Sun exposure is perhaps

the most important source of vitamin D because exposure to sunlight

provides most humans with their vitamin D requirement and yet we have to

be careful not to overexpose ourselves too much in the sun. Moderation

is the key here.

 

The other source of vitamin D is from our diet. There are only a few

food sources of vitamin D. Good sources of vitamin D are fortified foods

and beverages like milk, soy drinks, and margarine. Check the labels on

these foods. Fish, liver, and egg yolk are the only foods that naturally

contain vitamin D.

 

Can we have an overdose of vitamin D? From Wikipedia, " ...normal food

and pill vitamin D concentration levels are too low to be toxic in

adults, because of the high vitamin A content in codliver oil, it is

possible to reach toxic levels of vitamin A (but not vitamin D) via this

route, if taken in multiples of the normal dose in an attempt to

increase the intake of vitamin D. Most historical cases of vitamin D

overdose have occurred due to manufacturing and industrial accidents. "

 

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