Just read the article below and wanted to pass it along.

Vitamin D Supplements Benefit Baby Girls Later in Life

Baby girls who take vitamin D supplements before they are one year old
have greater bone mineral density by the time they are 9 years old,
Swiss researchers recently reported. This increase in bone density may
reduce their risk of broken bones and osteoporosis later in life.

Dr. Samuel A. Zamora, Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Pediatrics,
University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland, and his colleagues measured
bone density in several areas of the bodies of 106 Caucasian girls, aged
7-9 years. Of these girls, all who were breast-fed as infants and
healthy at the time of the study, 91 received vitamin D supplements
before the age of 1. When compared to the 15 girls who had not
received vitamin D supplementation, these girls had higher areal bone
mineral density.

Babies who are breast-fed are often given vitamin D supplementation if
their mothers are deficient in this vitamin or if the babies don’t get
enough exposure to sunlight. Vitamin D, which helps bones absorb
calcium, is activated by sunlight. This research, propose the authors,
suggests that vitamin D supplementation may help prevent bone problems
in women as they grow older. However, further research is needed. The
study findings were reported in the December 1999 issue of The Journal
of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (Vol. 84, No. 12).

Maybe just having some of those "full spectrum" lights would be better?

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Denny Rice, RN, IBCLC
Dallas Texas USA

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