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. 2011 Mar;26(3):455-7.
doi: 10.1002/jbmr.328.

Why the IOM recommendations for vitamin D are deficient

Robert P Heaney  1 , Michael F Holick
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Why the IOM recommendations for vitamin D are deficient

Robert P Heaney et al. J Bone Miner Res. 2011 Mar.
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Abstract

The IOM recommendations for vitamin D fail in a major way on logic, on science, and on effective public health guidance. Moreover, by failing to use a physiological referent, the IOM approach constitutes precisely the wrong model for development of nutritional policy.

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