Vitamin D – An Essential Requirement For A Lifetime

LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES, we make an assumption that we are consuming healthy diets and do not require additional nutritional supplementation to maintain proper health. We hear about nutritional deficiencies in third world countries and other parts of the world and believe they do not apply to us. We hear about medical accounts in the past regarding diseases such as rickets and scurvy from vitamin deficiencies and assume that those debilitating diseases no longer exist.