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Why is whole milk low in vitamin D?

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The vitamin D content of natural milk can be low due to several factors. The factors include the breed of the animal, the animal's exposure to sunlight, the animal's diet, and it's lactation. Season of the year is also a factor.
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What About Vitamin D?

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Preformed vitamin D is not needed by the body, it can be synthesized by exposure to sunshine of dehydrocholesterol present in the skin. Vitamin D created this way lasts in the body for many months such that it is possible to "top-up" one's vitamin D levels over the summer for the coming winter. Excess consumption of pre- formed Vitamin D can be dangerous. The Vitamin D in cow's milk is artificially added.
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How much Vitamin D is in the milk?

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Dairyland Skim, 1%, 2% and Homo milks are fortified with not more than 400 international units of Vitamin D per litre, as required by Canada's Food & Drug Regulations.
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Why is vitamin D added to milk?

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Vitamin D is added to milk to maximize the body’s capacity to absorb the calcium it needs to build and maintain healthy bones and teeth. A glass of regular milk meets 44% of your daily vitamin D requirements.
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What is the source of Vitamin A and Vitamin D in milk?

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Both vitamins A and D are from a synthetic source (non-animal): Vitamin A is from lemon grass oil and Vitamin D is derived from lanolin extracted from sheep's wool. It is Federal Government legislation that these vitamins are added to milk. These vitamins help promote bone and tooth development; vitamin A promotes good night vision and maintains the health of the skin and membranes.
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Why do you add Vitamin D to milk?

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Think of vitamin D as a wagon that carries calcium into and around the body. It helps regulate the calcium that goes into the bone and also the excretion of calcium by the kidneys.
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Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Vitamin D?

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Test your knowledge about Vitamin D, which has been in the news as a preventive for a number of health conditions.
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What are sources for vitamin D?

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Sources of vitamin D include outdoor activities, vitamin supplements (A/D), cod oil, fish with high fat content (e.g. salmon, eel, tuna), eggs, butter and dairy products (e.g. milk, cheese, yoghurt).
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Where does Vitamin D come from?

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The body's main source (80-100%) of Vitamin D is UV Light from the sun. The brain produces more of the mood-lifting chemical serotonin on sunny days than cloudy days. Indoor tanning provides a level of control that cannot be obtained outdoors. You are 80% less likely to sunburn outdoors if you've already built up a base tan.
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Is human milk "deficient" in vitamin D?

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No. This point of view is a cultural artifact. Just the phrase "vitamin D deficiency" illustrates how much we have missed the point, as "vitamin D" was misclassified as a vitamin and subsequently found to be a hormone produced via exposure of the skin to sunlight and not contained in most foods. What we are really talking about is sunlight deficiency.
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Why don’t you add Vitamin D to your milk?

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Typically, organic customers do not want synthetic vitamins used in milk. And, like our customers, we prefer our milk to be left in as natural of a state as possible.
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What about reports that pets may be suffering from Vitamin D overdose?

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The ASPCA’s Animal Poison Control Center (APCC) has an extensive amount of data on the effects of Vitamin D overdose in pets, and believes this is completely unrelated to the current crisis. Vitamin D3, or ‘cholecalciferol,’ is sold commercially as a rodenticide in the United States. If animals consume significant doses, their blood calcium and phosphorus levels increase significantly.
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What's the connection between UV light and Vitamin D production?

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Sunlight exposure (exposure to UV light) is your body's main source for Vitamin D - an essential vitamin for bone formation and repair, absorption of calcium and phosphorus and general good health. In many climates, the small amount of sunlight available from November to March makes it impossible to process Vitamin D naturally through outdoor sun exposure.
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How can I get tested for Vitamin D ?

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Before considering supplementation with vitamin D, it would be wise to have your vitamin D level tested. It is very important that your physician order the correct test. The advantage of having your medical doctor perform the test is that it will usually be covered by your medical insurance. There are two vitamin D tests: 1,25(OH)D and 25(OH)D. 25(OH)D is the better marker of overall D status. It is this marker that is most strongly associated with overall health.
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Why is Vitamin A added to some types of milk?

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Vitamin A is found within milk's naturally occurring fat particles. The process of skimming milk tends to reduce the amount of Vitamin A that is naturally present in milk. Therefore Vitamin A is added to lower-fat milk, such as skim, 1% and 2%, to match the natural levels found in whole milk.
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Is vitamin D added to your cheeses?

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We don’t add vitamins to our products; however vitamin D is naturally present in the milk. Products such as butter, cheese, yogurt, eggs and fish are the richest sources of vitamin D. Vitamin D is needed for the absorption of calcium and the prevention of osteoporosis.
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This is a question that is under much debate in the medical community today. Research has suggested that previous recommendations are far too low and as previously mentioned, there is a re-emerging risk of vitamin D deficiency in the U.S.
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Barefoot Super D3 - Frequently Asked Questions
Our skin can actually make it from the sun’s ultraviolet rays, but for us, living in Canada, particularly in the winter when we have limited sun exposure, and even in the summer when we are often covered with sunscreen, we may not be getting our required amount. In fact, reports show that in Canada, the UV light is too weak to make vitamin D from late fall through early spring.
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DO THE LIGHTS STIMULATE VITAMIN D PRODUCTION? IS THAT THE KEY TO THE ANTIDEPRESSANT EFFECT?

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They should not do so using an ultraviolet-screened light box, as recommended. Small amounts of outdoor light (with UV) stimulate adequate skin production of Vitamin D, although less so in winter in the north. If Vitamin D is an issue, supplement capsules are a solution. Unlike Vitamin D production, light therapy works through the eyes, not the skin.
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Why doesn't EZorb Calcium contain Vitamin D or magnesium?

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Traditional calcium supplements are hardly absorbed in the pH medium of the small intestine. With the help of Vitamin D, their absorption rate is slightly higher. Taking traditional calcium supplements also suppress your body's ability to absorb magnesium. In the pH environment of the small intestine, inorganic minerals tend to attach themselves to one another and form magma precipitation. Once precipitated, the minerals become nonabsorbable.
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How does the skin make vitamin D and what limits its production?

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Sun or UV light is the fuel that permits the body to manufacture vitamin D. But the amount of vitamin D formed in a given period of exposure depends on the color of your skin-that is, how rich your skin is in melanin. Melanin absorbs UV radiation. Therefore it diminishes the production of vitamin D. The darker a person's skin, the longer he or she has to be in the sun or exposed to UVB radiation to form a significant amount of vitamin D.
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