Reassessing Vitamin D

It has been interesting in recent months to see how previously lauded approaches are sometimes abandoned and positions reversed.  For example Fish Oil used to be prescribed in massive dosages ...(remember the Whole9 Fish Oil Calculator?) but there has been a recognition that this might not be healthy.

Vitamin D was also held up as a wonder drug for long enough too.  Again now there are questions as to the value of it, especially in terms of supplementation.

Too much vitamin D during pregnancy can cause food allergies\

Pregnant women should avoid taking vitamin D supplements. Substitution appears to raise the risk of children developing a food allergy after birth. This was the conclusion drawn from a new survey carried out by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg in Germany which was published in the February issue of the medical journal Allergy.

I am sure we could question the methodology of the study, but it is interesting nevertheless.