Re: Re: Vitamin D Deficiency Called Major HealthRisk

[Guest guest]

There has been much written on the subject and vit D from sunlight is

claimed to be far superior to supplements. Apparently there are different

variations of Vit D related to where the sunlight strikes your body.

It is postulated that the reason those of us who evolved from northern

latitudes had lighter skin, is to insure adequate Vit D.

Vit D is fat soluble and the body will store it so I don't know how

important daily doses are but vit D certainly is important in the average.

I have seen some store brand yogurts with vit A & D added, if you make your

own from enriched milk it will have some. I make kefir from store bought

milk so it has a normal load of Vits A & D. I still try to get some real

sunlight too.

JR

-----Original Message-----

From: Francesca Skelton [mailto:fskelton@...]

Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 2:43 PM

Subject: Re: [ ] Re: Vitamin D Deficiency Called Major

HealthRisk

I eat a cup or so of FF yogurt daily. It's made from skim milk but I don't

see any claims on the container for A & D such as you see on a milk

container. Does yogurt have D, or not?

on 5/21/2004 3:40 PM, Rodney at perspect1111@... wrote:

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[Guest guest]

The vitamin D in milk is added- it does not occur in milk naturally. If

it's not listed on the ingredients and nutritional information for the

yogurt, I think it's safe to assume it ain't there.

>From: Francesca Skelton <fskelton@...>

>Reply-

>< >

>Subject: Re: [ ] Re: Vitamin D Deficiency Called Major

>HealthRisk

>Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 15:43:17 -0400

>

>I eat a cup or so of FF yogurt daily. It's made from skim milk but I don't

>see any claims on the container for A & D such as you see on a milk

>container. Does yogurt have D, or not?

>

>

>on 5/21/2004 3:40 PM, Rodney at perspect1111@... wrote:

>

> > Hi folks:

> >

> > Also perhaps worth repeating from the vitamin D discussion here a

> > couple of months ago .............. when I analyzed my diet using

> > Fitday I found I was getting more than the RDA for it. But only two

> > or three of the foods I had eaten contained ANY of it. Had I not

> > been eating fish daily I would have been dramatically deficient in it.

> >

> > IMO it is very well worth the effort to check if you are getting

> > enough. (And the fish provides so many other benefits it is the

> > obvious solution, if you are in need of one).

> >

> > Rodney.

>

[Guest guest]

Sorry to repeat myself but I have seen yogurt (Wal-Mart store brand) that

was enriched with vit A & D. Perhaps those sharp pencil boys make their yogurt

from drinking milk that passed it's " use by " date :-).

This also drives home the need to read all labels. While it is possible to

overdose on fat soluble Vits, for this group I doubt Vit D ODs are as much

risk as not getting enough.

FWIW cheap store brand yogurts may also have preservatives, sweetening,

thickening, and sundry other agents to deliver a consistent commercial

product. While I think Kefir is even easier to make, I remember making my

own yogurt years ago.

JR

-----Original Message-----

From: dowlic@... [mailto:dowlic@...]

Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 3:29 PM

Subject: [ ] Re: Vitamin D Deficiency Called Major

HealthRisk

> >

> > > Hi folks:

> > >

> > > Also perhaps worth repeating from the vitamin D discussion here

a

> > > couple of months ago .............. when I analyzed my diet

using

> > > Fitday I found I was getting more than the RDA for it. But

only two

> > > or three of the foods I had eaten contained ANY of it. Had I

not

> > > been eating fish daily I would have been dramatically deficient

in it.

> > >

> > > IMO it is very well worth the effort to check if you are getting

> > > enough. (And the fish provides so many other benefits it is the

> > > obvious solution, if you are in need of one).

> > >

> > > Rodney.

> >

[Guest guest]

Whoops. I see now that what I was writing is what already said. However,

in looking at all this, I happened to notice that goat milk actually has

a smattering of D in it. http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-001-02s002m.html

This appears to be natural. I rather think goat yogurt is kinda tasty with

a touch of sucralose.

dowlic@... wrote:

The vitamin D in milk is added- it does not occur in milk naturally. If it's not listed on the ingredients and nutritional information for the yogurt, I think it's safe to assume it ain't there.

To wit: "Because only fluid milk is fortified with vitamin D, other dairy products (cheese, yogurt, etc.) only provide the vitamin that was produced by the animal itself. "

Prepared by Professor W. Norman;

Department of Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences

University of California, Riverside CA 92521

(December 12,

[Guest guest]

I believe you are so right about that issue . The information I've

read says that the liver stores only small amounts. Since I've had more

than one blood test that evidenced D deficiency, I have to conclude that

the storage capacity isn't necessarily sufficient to carry one through

the 6 months period that UVB is not hitting the northern 2/3 of the USA.

john roberts wrote:

>Vit D is fat soluble and the body will store it so I don't know how important

daily doses are but vit D certainly is important in the average.

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