Calcium and vitamin D

Calcium and vitamin D is part of a common and important interactions with regard to bone health. Calcium is an important building block for bones, while vitamin D is necessary for calcium can be absorbed from the intestine.
In the absence of vitamin D are bone not offered a sufficient amount of calcium to maintain bone system.
In addition, vitamin D is needed to ensure normal muscle function. Lack of vitamin D can weaken the muscle power. Consequences may be that people with vitamin D deficiency easier to fall, and thereby facilitate suffers a fracture. If the bones are decalcified, no such large loads to until burst occurs. In the absence of vitamin D, you can also get body pain, cramps in the muscles or tingling and numbness in hands, arms, feet and legs and feel tired.

Am I getting too much Vitamin D?

Question:

I eat lots of oily fish and drink ½ to 1 liter of extra fat milk (vitamin D) a day. I rarely take cod liver oil. Can I get in too much vitamin D?


Answer:


No, there is no danger of getting too much vitamin D with the diet you outline.


Fat fish spread on two slices of bread and a pint of milk vitamin D each day of the week and dinner with oily fish twice a week for an average of about 10 micrograms of vitamin D per day. This is in line with the recommended daily intake of vitamin D and significantly lower than the upper limit for long-term intake for adults is set at 50 micrograms per day.


Vitamin D sources

There are few foods that contribute significant amounts of vitamin D. Fatty fish, liver and cod liver oil has a high content of vitamin D. In fish such as mackerel, herring, salmon and trout is the content of vitamin D about 6-12 g mikrogram/100 . Fish Spreads as sprats, sardines, mackerel in tomato sauce and pickled herring contain between 5-15 mikrogram/100 g. A daily dose of cod liver oil provides 10 micrograms of vitamin D.


Vitamin D is formed in the skin when exposed to sunlight. Sunlight is generally more significant than the diet to meet the need. When sun exposure is extremely low, vitamin D intake from diet essential to maintain good status.


The recommended intake of vitamin D is 10 micrograms / day from 6-23 months of age and those older than 60 years. For children and adults from 2 years to 60 years of age, the recommendation 7.5 micrograms / day.


The upper tolerable level

The upper tolerable level for long-term intake of vitamin D is the EU's Scientific Committee on Food set to 25 micrograms / day for children and 50 micrograms / day for adults. The upper tolerable intake level represents a daily intake most people can have a lifetime without causing risk to health.


Vitamin D and Health

Vitamin D is essential for normal bone metabolism. Severe vitamin D deficiency can lead to damage to bones, such as rickets in children and osteomalacia (oppbløtning of the bones) in adults. Vitamin D deficiency is a risk factor for osteoporosis and fractures.

The Sun is a daily gift to your skin and bones.

In our skin are substance 7th-hydrocholesterol activated by sunlight and absorbed as vitamin D. The sun is our main supplier of vitamin D. We all long for the light and sun rays everyday, even our pets follow their instincts and place themselves in the sun to create vitamin D in the coat.

We lose some of the ability to produce vitamin D in the skin as we get older, therefore it is especially important that we as older people go much all year and especially when the sun shines. We recommend using sun factor cream to prevent sunburn and develop skin cancer.

Using a solar sunscreen 6 or more inhibited the formation of vitamin D in the skin, therefore select sunbathing early morning and late afternoon when the sun's rays are so powerful - taking a nap in the shade at. 11.30 to 15.00.

My experience shows that the sun can be tolerated better when you have a good nutrition. Studies show that fish oil strengthens the skin and minimizes the risk of sunburn, follow the instructions, dietary advice for a healthy nutrition.

Eat vitamin D and N3-containing foods throughout the year

Our main sources of vitamin D is sunlight and oily fish. Eat at least 50 grams of fatty fish every day and want more. Give the children mackerel in tomato sauce, smoked herring, tuna, etc.. as topping.

Are not included oily fish in the daily diet, there are problems with supply of vitamin D supplements. Many are talking about milk as vitamin D source, nevertheless, a young girl or boy aged 16 drink 6 liters of whole milk or eat 1 kg of butter to recover its fair needs. A low fat diet does not cover the daily requirement of vitamin D, which gives an increased risk of developing osteoporosis.

Fat-soluble vitamins

A little fat is good!

10-20 grams of fat a day is enough to ensure a good absorption of fat soluble vitamins A, D, E and K.

How do you get the fat-soluble vitamins?

The fat-soluble vitamins include A, D, E and K vitamins.

These vitamins should be dissolved in fats during digestion, otherwise they are not busy, but go straight through the gut and out again instead. One of the first reactions to an extremely low fat diet is that the absorption of fat soluble vitamins are getting smaller.

It is therefore important to eat fat in the same meal as the fat-soluble vitamins. All kinds of fat are equal to dissolve the vitamins. You do not wallow in fat to ensure a good recording. A small quantity is sufficient.

The required amount of fat you can get if the meal contains:

* Slightly oily fish

* A little oil (1-2 teaspoons is enough)

* A little cheese (also fat cheese adds some fat)

* Frøholdigt bread (for example sunflower rye bread)

As many meals containing one or more fat-soluble vitamins, all meals contain little fat on one way or another. 10-20 grams of fat total per day is enough to ensure an adequate vitamin absorption. You can not use the fat-soluble vitamins as an excuse to keep eating too much fat.

When to take vitamin pill?

If you take a vitamin pill that also contain fat soluble vitamins, you should take it with today's very fatty meal. It will typically be dinner. Most people take vitamin pill with breakfast. But breakfast is often thin, for example, cornflakes with skimmed milk or bread with jam, so the fat-soluble vitamins are not utilized.

What are the fat soluble vitamins, and how many do you need?

The fat-soluble vitamins are A, D, E, and vitamin K.

Vitamin A

Women should consume 0.8 mg and women 0.9 mg vitamin A daily. Daily eating Danish women on average 1.1 mg and women 1.4 mg vitamin A, so there are generally no problems getting enough of this vitamin. Most Danes also eat plenty of fat to ensure absorption.

Vitamin A is important for:

o vision

o immune

o fertility

o mucous

o The body's defenses against free radicals


Lack of vitamin A may include providing:

o night blindness

o wrinkles


The best sources of vitamin A are:

o giblets in eg liver pate

o carrots

o eggs

o dark green vegetables

o Spinach

o corn

o mangos


Vitamin D

Both men and women should eat 5 micrograms vitamin D per day.

Many people eat too little vitamin D. The average intake is just under three micrograms per day.

Vitamin D can also be formed in the skin when you are out in the sun. But in the period from October to March the sun is so low in the sky that does not give enough light to stimulate skin's vitamin D production. Therefore, the diet is particularly important as vitamin D source in winter.

Vitamin D is important for:

o bone health

o immune


The most significant sources of vitamin D are:

o herring

o salmon

o mackerel

o sun


Make it a habit to eat fatty fish products every day, such as marinated herring, smoked salmon or mackerel in tomato. And maybe eat a carrot to get vitamin A simultaneously. Sufficient vitamin D in the diet also protects against osteoporosis later in life.

Vitamin E

Women recommended 8 mg and men 10 mg vitamin E per day. But the Danish average diet contains only just under seven mg and almost nine mg. It is not enough just to that one develops deficiency symptoms.

Vitamin E is particularly important as:

o fat-soluble antioxidant that protects cell membranes

o protect against attack from free radicals

o prevents against including cancer and cardiovascular disease


The main sources of vitamin E are:

o cooking oils

o nuts

o seeds

o almonds

o eel

o cod roe

o kale

o egg yolks

o wheat bran


Vitamin K

Vitamin K can both be formed by bacteria in the intestines and fed with the diet. No one knows exactly how much vitamin K, diet should contain. K-vitamin deficiency due to low vitamin K intake is not observed in healthy people, but it can occur in patients treated with antibiotics, and who also have low intake of vitamin K. The reason is that antibiotics may inhibit the bacteria in the intestinal tract, forming K-vitamin.

Vitamin K is needed for:

o clotting.


The best dietary sources of vitamin K are vegetables:

o avocado

o cabbage

o Broccoli

o Spinach

o Grapes
Vitamin D (also called calciferol) has several forms, etc.. metabolites. When the vitamin was discovered in 1922 it was called a vitamin, but it is not really a vitamin, because. that the body can produce it themselves - with exposure to sunlight. When sunlight synthesize vitamin to its active metabolite, while the intake of food will be stored in adipose tissue as a kind of stock that can be further converted to the active metabolite. Vitamin D is purely molecularly structured as a hormone or. namely a secosteroid, also because of its function in the body.




Vitamin D is formed in the skin under sunlight (UVB radiation) and also taken up in the intestine from vitamin D-containing nutrition or supplements. Lack of vitamin D can cause rickets in children (rickets) and in adults, a condition called osteomalacia, which is characterized by painful and weak pelvic muscles especially in the party.

We distinguish between light to moderate and severe vitamin D deficiency. In recent years, scientists have been aware that the easy vitamin D deficiency is frequent, especially among the elderly, including nursing home patients and patients with hip fractures. The condition is also called vitamin D insufficiency and leads to increased risk of osteoporosis and bone fractures. Severe vitamin D deficiency is rare in our part of the world and is caused when usually a bowel disease with inadequate absorption of nutrients (malabsorption) or very one-sided diet.