Vitamins are lacking in the diets of millions of US children, it is claimed.
Research suggests that vitamins are deficient in the diets of millions of children in the US, reports Nutraceuticals World.
The Albert Einstein College of Medicine conducted the assessment of more than 6,000 children, measuring their intake of vitamins and in particular of vitamin D.
Study leader Dr Michal Melamed tells the nutraceutical business publication: "Several small studies had found a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in specific populations of children."
But he adds that "no-one had examined this issue nationwide".
In the most recent research, 70 per cent of the child participants were seen to be lacking vitamin D intake to some extent.
The nutraceutical business magazine adds that this opens them to the threat of bone and heart disease.
Vitamin D was listed in Nutraceuticals World's recent "bone health ingredients" feature, which explained that the vitamin combines with calcium in bone formation, as part of the normal cycle of creation and destruction that takes place in the bones over the course of a lifetime.
