Alaska health officials now recommend much higher Vitamin D supplements
In some cases, the new recommendations are double the old ones, or even higher.
In Alaska, as in the rest of the circumpolar North, residents struggle with deficiencies of Vitamin D, a bone-strengthening nutrient the body absorbs from sunlight. The problem is especially serious for Alaska’s indigenous children: From 2001 to 2010, Alaska Native children under the age of 10 had almost twice the national rate of rickets-associated hospitalizations.
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