The D-lightful vitamin d for health

Abstract

Vitamin D is the sunshine vitamin that is not only important for children's and adults' skeletal health but is also impor­tant for their overall health and wellbeing. Vitamin D defi­ciency has been defined as a 25-hydroxyvitamin D 30 ng/mL children require 600-1 000 lUs and adults 1 500-2 000 lUs of vitamin D daily.

Keywords

• vitamin d
• cancer
• sunlight
• 25-hydroxyvita­min d
• infectious disease
• osteoporosis
• rickets