I remember my primary school teacher way back then telling us about
. In our young and fertile minds, she planted the idea that it is ideal to exercise early in the morning, from 7 to 9 am as the sun’s rays are so vibrantly crisp during those hours and they would activate vitamin D in our body. Those who were a bit slow had a mistaken notion that it was the sun’s rays that contain vitamin D and so it was a good subject for our silly debate. But to this day, however, it has long been embedded in my mind that vitamin D is essential for healthy bones.
At times it can be amazing what primary school teachers can do. What they put in the fertile minds of young children can stay for life and can serve to be guidelines for how they live, even as adults. It can be true, especially on matters like good health and nutrition. And so it was in my case. But as an adult and as a writer, I get to learn more about nutrition and vitamin D for that matter, and knowledge does prove to be liberating. What more on concerns pertaining to healthy living. It can definitely create a major impact on one’s well being, their longevity and ultimately the quality of their life.
In the arena of vitamins, there are more popular ones such as Vitamins A, C, and E. There may not have been so much propaganda on vitamin D, but it may be interesting to note that
is regarded as the overall guardian of the skeletal system. Like vitamins A and E, vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin which means it is not easily obtained from food. Luckily for us, though, sunshine or the sun’s UV rays trigger the vitamin’s synthesis in the skin. Vitamin D performs the crucial role of upkeeping normal levels of calcium and phosphorous in the blood.
The vitamin helps to form and maintain strong bones by promoting calcium absorption. Other than that, the vitamin has to work in combination with other vitamins, minerals and hormones so that the bones can have more efficient mineralization. Being the guardian of the human skeletal system, vitamin D aids in the maintenance of a healthy immune system and the regulation of cellular activity and growth. A good source of vitamin D is one cup of milk fortified with the said vitamin. Such would be enough to provide one half of the recommended intake for adults ages 19 to 50 and one fourth of the RDA for those aging 51 to 70.
One can also obtain vitamin D from fortified breakfast cereals. Only a few commonly consumed foods are good sources of vitamin D which is rather unfortunate. These foods are salmon, cod liver oil, mackerel, sardines, tuna fish, egg, margarine, beef and liver. Among the classics of
deficiency diseases for the young is rickets, while for adults it is osteomalacia. Other than that, deficiency of the vitamin also indirectly results to osteoporosis.
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