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Vitamin D:Miracle Vitamin?

Vitamin D:Miracle Vitamin?

Should you or should you not take extra vitamin D as a supplement to your diet? The Health Council does not think so, more and more specialists are advising that they do. Santé lists it.

An average Western diet provides only ten percent of the required amount of vitamin D. The other 90 percent must be produced by your body through direct sunlight. Scroll to page 28 in the April issue and discover the pros and cons of taking extra vitamin D.

Go outside In any case, the sun is shining today. So go outside to give your vitamin D a boost.

Vitamin D from food Help your body by eating foods with vitamin D. For example, a salad with mackerel.