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Expert Calls on Government to Increase Recommended Daily Vitamin D Intake

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, December 2nd, 2008

Today, the Indoor Tanning Association (ITA) asked Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, why he is suing a local tanning salon owner for claiming that tanning provides vitamin D, when Vitamin D experts at the University of California Riverside are saying the same thing'

Anthony Norman a distinguished professor emeritus of biochemistry and of biomedical sciences at UC Riverside, is co-leading a group of 18 researchers in a "call to action" (http://www.grassrootshealth.org/daction/epidemic.php) recommending that the daily intake of vitamin D for adults be revised by the government to 2000...

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