Don't get sucked into the marketing. I haven't noticed more people with rickets. But I have noticed a big campaign to test everyone and sell them supplements many times not covered by insurance. An industry that only made 40 million in 2008 now up above 250 million. Eat your fish and dairy get outside you should be fine. Funny isn't it the one industry: tanning salons that can provide vitamin D without taking pills and it's being taxed under the new health care bill. I smell an industry seeking to make millions off stupidity.
Vitamin D is one thing mother nature can provide. You don't need supplements you need to get outside and you need to eat fish and dairy in moderation. The fact that Wall St. is seeking to manipulate this is a symptom of just how we can all be marketed to. Much like making us fear climate change which is a normally occurring fact of life.
come to southern calif dude. you will have no problem gettin your vitamin d with all the sun =), but theres a chance of becomin a crispy critter too..
I am in northern cal. and believe me we get our sunshine. 100 plus temps for three months, but I am guessing the health care industry is tapping those resources as well.
Wait until your next check up you doctor will request/insist on a vitamin D blood workup, and it won't be covered and the supplements they'll put you on won't be covered either. I can't believe we are falling for this.
i got a good doc and ive never taken a blood test since i got my tb test way back when i was 8 I understand where your coming from about how we could get more than half the shit they prescribe naturally though.
...I was with you until this. No, it's not that they turn your face into a leather purse. It's because the government wants you to buy their pills instead. Wow. How could we have been so blind as to suspect a radiation chamber of causing skin cancer...
We're always deficient in something. Our ancestors didn't need supplements to their diet, and they had a lot less variety than we do.
I am not recommending a George Hamilton tan. Have you ever considered slathering on sunscreen may not be that wise either. Have you ever looked at the ingredients in them? http://www.ewg.org/analysis/toxicsunscreen
Vitamin D deficiency is a real problem and may factor into the rise of diabetes, autism and a raft of bone diseases and cancers. But the rise in the deficiency is a direct result of our unreasonable fear of sun exposure. Interesting article: http://www.uvadvantage.org/portals/0/pdf/NEJournalofMedicine.pdf And Dr. Holick even recommends the limited use of tanning booths by those in northern latitudes and those where outdoor exposure is impractical.
