Osteoporosis Diet and Prevention

Vitamin D

Vitamin D is very important to our health for many reasons. But the very important is that vitamin D is essential to help in the absorption of calcium. The daily vitamin D intake is about 600 international units (IU) for 70 years and younger and 800n (IU) if you are 71 years or older.

We get a good amount of vitamin D from exposure to the sun. However, when we can’t assure this daily exposure to the sunlight, we can take vitamin D supplements.

There are some signs that will show you vitamin D deficiency, so you have to pay attention to them.

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