Calls for millions to be given free vitamin D supplements

Calls for millions to be given free vitamin D supplements

One in five adults at risk of deficiency, with a lack of the 'sunshine' vitamin linked to soft bones and other conditions

Millions more people should be offered free vitamin D supplements under proposals from the government's health advisers to tackle the increasingly widespread deficiency in the vitamin.

Councils should consider making supplements available to the one in five adults who are at risk. A lack of the "sunshine" vitamin has been linked to soft bones and other health conditions. Older people and those from ethnic minorities, whose darker skin means they produce less vitamin D, would be among the recipients, according to the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (Nice). The Guardian

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