Report Release: Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium and Vitamin D from too much vitamin d Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 39 min 82 sec
✓ Published: 01-Dec-2010

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Calcium and vitamin D are two essential nutrients long known for their role in bone health. But since 2000, the public has heard conflicting messages about other benefits of these nutrients—especially vitamin D—and also about how much calcium and vitamin D they need to be healthy. To help clarify this issue, the United States and Canadian governments asked the IOM to assess the current data on health outcomes associated with calcium and vitamin D, as well as updating the nutrient reference v