An international group of vitamin D experts recently published the Endocrine Society’s (ES) Vitamin D Clinical Practice Guidelines, which challenge some of the key findings of the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) recent vitamin D Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) and tolerable upper limit (UL) recommendations¥2. The Endocrine Society also challenged the IOM’s [...]
In late November 2010, the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine (IOM), an independent nonprofit organization that provides unbiased and authoritative advice about health to those in government and the private sector, released a report discussing new vitamin D (and calcium) DRIs* for North Americans1. Governmental regulatory agencies of the food and dietary supplement [...]
Recently the American Academy of Pediatrics¹ (AAP) and authors published in the British Medical Journal² (BMJ) and the Journal of Nutrition³ recommended that people of all ages, from children to older adults, increase vitamin D levels in the body using nutritional supplements.
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