Product Over Process

This article came out this morning from the NYTimes, and it reflects the culture of health that has become so very skewed over time.

This article is emphatic. We need to give our kids supplements to prevent Vitamin D disorders and many other dreaded ailments.

I wonder what we ever did prior to before these pills were here to save us. But, not to be completely flippant, let me just quote from the article:

To meet the new recommendation of 400 units daily, millions of children will need to take vitamin D supplements each day, the American
Academy of Pediatrics said.

But according to this article, a person will produce about 20,000 units of vitamin D after just 20 minutes of summer sun exposure. This means that we have the capacity to make enormous amounts of vitamin D very quickly.

The NYTimes article cites, as the reason you really must give your children pills, the fact that if you only got your Vitamin D from Milk, you’d have to give them 4 cups per day.

The authors know that simple sunshine produces a lot of Vitamin D. And they don’t even acknowledge this in the piece, citing a faux reason that we must be compelled to turn to the pharmaceutical industry to save us.

Because of this obvious omission, the article must be revised.