How much does vitamin D deficiency cost, besides the millions of lives?
Three other good scientists, Bill Grant, Cedric Garland and Michael Holick, recently attempted to answer that question. They came up with a figure of about $40-60 billion every year in the United States alone. I think that is a conservative number. Photochem Photobiol. 2005 Jan 1; [Epub ahead of print] How Much Does Vitamin D Deficiency Cost? Also, check out Dr. Grant’s organization, SunArc. Bill was a NASA scientist until he retired and started his own non-profit to do research into vitamin D. He is doing just that and making a difference. No, facts don’t cease to exist because they are ignored. But they make little difference when policy advisors, like the Institute of Medicine, ignore scientific facts. The institute recommends 400 units a day, instead of 4,000. They are making a full order of magnitude error. Millions of people are dying needlessly, especially African-Americans. I urge you to e-mail Dr. Harvey Fineberg, president of the Institute of Medicine. Ask him to stop ignorin
