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‘D’ is for debate: Controversy over vitamin supplements sows confusion

March 9, 2011:

Experts have long complained that the 1997 Institute of Medicine guidelines on vitamin D intake were too low. Copious research since then on vitamin D, much of it encouraging, have sent sales of the vitamin skyrocketing. A new report will probably slow that trend, says the UC Berkeley Wellness Letter.

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