Sorry, but your recipes and your advice are off the mark on Vitamin D. While you may be getting great attention talking about Vitamin D, recommending egg yolks (40 IU each) as a 'good' source of vitamin D is off the mark.
When the recommendations by researchers are more like 4000 IU's per day, egg yolks are a 'negligible' source of Vitamin D. Mushrooms, likewise, are negligible - UNLESS they have been SUN DRIED!! Regular mushrooms grown in the dark- as most mushrooms are- Do not contain vitamin D.
15 minutes of full sun exposure provides approximately 20,000 IU's in summer in fair skinned people. It is a MUCH more efficient way to get your vitamin D. Supplements and sunshine are really the only realistic way to get sufficient vitamin D every day.
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Sorry, but your recipes and your advice are off the mark on Vitamin D. While you may be getting great attention talking about Vitamin D, recommending egg yolks (40 IU each) as a 'good' source of vitamin D is off the mark.
When the recommendations by researchers are more like 4000 IU's per day, egg yolks are a 'negligible' source of Vitamin D. Mushrooms, likewise, are negligible - UNLESS they have been SUN DRIED!! Regular mushrooms grown in the dark- as most mushrooms are- Do not contain vitamin D.
15 minutes of full sun exposure provides approximately 20,000 IU's in summer in fair skinned people. It is a MUCH more efficient way to get your vitamin D. Supplements and sunshine are really the only realistic way to get sufficient vitamin D every day.
Check out this link on Vitamin D Foods.
http://www.easy-immune-health.com/Vitamin-D-Foods.html
Kerri Knox, RN
June 29, 2009 - 8:48amThis Comment
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