Vitamin D is essential for the absorption and use of calcium in our bodies. It promotes the growth and maintenance of strong bones.
Your body can make Vitamin D from casual sunlight exposure of short duration (as little as 5 to 15 minutes per day, 2 or 3 times per week) on the face and hands. Healthy children and adults can usually get enough Vitamin D from sunlight, food/multivitamin.
Vitamin D is found in fatty fish and eggs and in fortified foods such as cows milk, some soy milk and rice milk.
