70% of U.S. Children Have Insufficient Vitamin D
About 70 percent of U.S. children have low levels of vitamin D, which puts them at higher risk for bone and heart disease.
“We expected the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency would be high, but the magnitude of the problem nationwide was shocking,” said Dr. Juhi Kumar of Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center. (Source)
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