I understand the concern that vitamin D deficiency in infants may increase with breast feeding may be misconstrued as advice against breast feeding babies. What I think the point here is that if a mother is breast feeding, she should also give her child a vitamin D supplement in addition to breast milk rather than forgo breast feeding the baby.
It amazes me that the importance of vitamin D has been so ignored. I have just been floored by the articles that have been coming out the last two years relating low vitamin D to everything from diabetes to MS to obesity to stroke to heart disease to back pain to cancer. Now thyroid disease too. How much money could we save on medical treatment and improve our quality of life just by taking a cheap vitamin D supplement? I started.
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I understand the concern that vitamin D deficiency in infants may increase with breast feeding may be misconstrued as advice against breast feeding babies. What I think the point here is that if a mother is breast feeding, she should also give her child a vitamin D supplement in addition to breast milk rather than forgo breast feeding the baby.
It amazes me that the importance of vitamin D has been so ignored. I have just been floored by the articles that have been coming out the last two years relating low vitamin D to everything from diabetes to MS to obesity to stroke to heart disease to back pain to cancer. Now thyroid disease too. How much money could we save on medical treatment and improve our quality of life just by taking a cheap vitamin D supplement? I started.
March 29, 2009 - 7:53amThis Comment
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