Vitamin D And Taller Babies

Vitamin D is important for bonebuilding even in the womb

Researchers form Bristol University looked at the likely sun exposure of the mothers of 7000 children in the last three months of pregnancy.

Those mothers pregnant in the summer have taller, stronger-boned children because they benefit from the sun's vitamin d boosting rays. These findings are the latest to emerge from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children which enrolled 14,000 mothers at pregnancy between 1991 and 1992 and then followed their offsprings.

The researchers said that the increase in bone mass was put down to vitamin D levels. Sunlight on the skin generates vitamin D, which works with calcium to build bones. The figures prove that vitamin d is important for bone-building even in the womb!

Source: Yorkshire Post

Further information: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk.

4th, February 2009

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Vitamin D And Taller Babies

Vitamin D is important for bonebuilding even in the womb

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