{"id":71493,"date":"2017-08-02T13:43:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T20:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/pharma-controlled-journal-of-the-american-medical-association-waging-full-scale-attack-on-vitamin-d-in-effort-to-push-flu-shots-for-toddlers"},"modified":"2017-08-04T09:34:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T16:34:37","slug":"pharma-controlled-journal-of-the-american-medical-association-waging-full-scale-attack-on-vitamin-d-in-effort-to-push-flu-shots-for-toddlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/pharma-controlled-journal-of-the-american-medical-association-waging-full-scale-attack-on-vitamin-d-in-effort-to-push-flu-shots-for-toddlers","title":{"rendered":"Pharma-controlled Journal of the American Medical Association waging full-scale attack on Vitamin D in effort to push flu shots for toddlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pharma-controlled-journal-of-the-american-medical-association-waging-full-scale-attack-on-vitamin-d-in-effort-to-push-flu-shots-for-toddlers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a href='http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com'>Natural News<\/a>) A recent headline in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-4707534\/High-doses-vitamin-D-don-t-help-toddlers-avoid-colds.html\">U.K.\u2019s <em>Daily Mail<\/em> boldly declares<\/a>, \u201cVitamin D will NOT protect your child from a cold: Myth-busting study says \u2018more isn\u2019t always better\u2019 to help toddlers stay healthy.\u201d This disingenuous headline infers that vitamin D has <em>no<\/em> protective effect against colds and flu. In fact, the study it goes on to cite, published in the <em>Journal of the American Medical Association<\/em> (JAMA), only compared the effects of two different dosages of vitamin D administered to children. It did not compare the health of children who were not given <a href=\"http:\/\/science.naturalnews.com\/vitamin_D.html\">vitamin D supplements<\/a> at all, to those who were.<\/p>\n<p>For some time now, researchers have understood that there is a link between a lack of sunshine, as experienced in most northern hemisphere countries in winter time, and the increased prevalence of viral infections, particularly upper respiratory tract infections, or the common cold. The production of the hormone vitamin D is directly linked to exposure to direct sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at St. Michael\u2019s Hospital in Toronto, Canada, decided to investigate whether giving children doses higher than the daily recommended amount of vitamin D would reduce their risk of getting sick. Their study included 700 healthy children between the ages of 1 and 5. Half the children were given the standard recommended dose of 400IU of vitamin D daily during winter, while the other half were given a higher dose of 2000IU each day. There was no statistically significant difference in the number of colds and flus reported by the children\u2019s parents for the duration of the study \u2013 all the kids in both groups had an average of about 1.9 colds each.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2017-08-01-pharma-controlled-journal-of-the-american-medical-association-waging-full-scale-attack-on-vitamin-d.html\">http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2017&#45;08&#45;01-pharma-control...min-d.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Natural News) A recent headline in the U.K.\u2019s Daily Mail boldly declares, \u201cVitamin D will NOT protect your child from a cold: Myth-busting study says \u2018more isn\u2019t always better\u2019 to help toddlers stay healthy.\u201d This disingenuous headline infers that vitamin D has no protective effect against colds and flu. In fact, the study it goes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71682,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71493\/revisions\/71682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}