Word: multivitamin
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...second and third daughters. For one thing, this time around I really am getting no sleep; for another, the pediatrician recommended something for our 1-month-old that is different from what had been suggested for our other children. She said we needed to pick up a liquid multivitamin that contains 400 international units (IUs) of vitamin D. It was a little confusing, because with our first daughter, now almost 4, the doctor told us to simply get her out in the sun from time to time to let her body produce vitamin D, also known as the sunshine vitamin...
wouldn't starve if I ate birdseed, drank milk, and took a multivitamin...
That's why researchers at the University of California, Davis, studying multivitamin use among kids and teens expected to find that lower-income children would be more likely to take supplements to make up for their spotty diets. Instead, researchers found the opposite. When they analyzed the results of a national survey of more than 10,000 children and adolescents ages 2 through 17, they found that those who were most likely to take vitamin and mineral supplements were those who needed them least - in other words, youngsters in higher-income families, who ate consistent and nutritious meals...
That's a problem, particularly when it comes to vitamin D. Federal guidelines recommend that children get 400 I.U. of the vitamin a day, equivalent to four 8 oz. glasses of milk. But most American kids, including those eating regular balanced meals, don't get enough - and a multivitamin would be the easiest way to make up for the deficiency. As for the other minerals and vitamins typically found in supplements, however, Greer says, "We don't have deficiencies in the healthy U.S. population. Healthy kids who eat a well-rounded diet don't really need vitamin supplements...
...poorer satellite city of about half a million outside Tehran, the three nurses in the two-room health station are busy weighing infants, giving vaccines and taking the blood pressure of the mostly elderly visitors, like Mirza Seyyed Hosseini, 75, a shoemaker who drops in on occasion for a multivitamin injection...