08-24-2009
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Re: Vitamin D, Magic Mushrooms
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Back to basic: Get vitamins
By The Daily Progress
Published: August 17, 2009
This is almost like the return of tuberculosis or polio.
A health problem addressed long ago has re-emerged to threaten America’s children: a lack of vitamin D.
About 7.6 million children, adolescents and young adults — about 9 percent — have vitamin D levels so low they could be considered deficient.
Another 61 percent — 50.8 million — have levels low enough to be insufficient, according to a new analysis of federal data.
“It’s astounding,” said Michal Mela-med of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, who helped conduct one of the analyses. “At first, we couldn’t believe the numbers. I think it’s very worrisome.”
Low vitamin levels were especially low among girls, adolescents and people with darker skin, making African-American teenage girls the group at the highest risk.
Anyone with low vitamin D levels is at risk for bone problems, heart disease, diabetes and other problems.
Researchers and others attribute the deficiencies to:
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