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Fortifying essential food with sensible amounts of vitamin D is a cheap intervention that will have a small but important benefit.
Vitamin D has been shown to regulate the function of 229 genes in humans, suggesting that it plays many roles in maintaining health.
British children left angry and bewildered by food poverty.
For most people, our standard diet provides all the necessary vitamins we need. However, childhood vitamin D deficiency in the UK – something that should be a headline from the distant past – has made…
A new joint position statement on target levels for vitamin D, published in the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) by the Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society and Osteoporosis Australia…
Vitamin D is essential for healthy bones – low levels result in deformed limbs in children (rickets) and weakness and bone pain in adults. So there’s no question that we should all strive to maintain normal…
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Professor of Epidemiology, Australian National University
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Professor of Biochemistry, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Sociology, University of Kent
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Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Penn State
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Professor and Director of the Stoneygate Centre for Excellence in Empathic Healthcare, University of Leicester