Vitamin D has been in the news a lot the past few weeks. Everyone is talking about this quiet little vitamin. Doctors tell women, “Take vitamin D” because “You probably aren’t getting enough.” But we never learn why we should and what will happen to us if we don’t.

There was a study done recently about how children don’t get outside enough. The old days of play, play, play outside are gone, and that children are consuming great quantities of soda pop and leaving the milk in the refrigerator. They are missing the vitamin D, but we still don’t know why.

We make sure that every child is served three cups of milk every day at school. We also make sure that every child goes outside for at least 1.5 hours a day.

There has been a new study about milk and Parkinson’s Disease, and this testing is not controversial at all. It seems that patients with Parkinson’s have much less vitamin D in their bodies than they should. Same with Alzheimer’s patients.

Another good reason to serve milk at dinner – and to everyone! For adults milk, with its vitamin D, might just postpone old age another few decades. The source for vitamin D is the sun and the basic food source is milk, so drink up and go outside more!

To read the article on the new study, go HERE.