{"id":10446,"date":"2009-08-01T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=10446"},"modified":"2009-07-30T16:36:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T21:36:21","slug":"vitamin-d-deficiency-makes-asthma-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/vitamin-d-deficiency-makes-asthma-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D Deficiency Makes Asthma Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10541\" title=\"pouring milk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/pouring-milk.jpg\" alt=\"pouring milk\" width=\"200\" height=\"279\" \/>Experts are warning that current recommendations for daily <a title=\"vitamin d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/study-finds-vitamin-d-low-in-toddlers\/\" target=\"_self\">vitamin D<\/a> intake are &#8220;grossly inadequate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;National recommendations from the Food and Nutrition Board are 400 to 600 International Units (IU) a day,&#8221; says Neil Binkley, MD, an Associate Professor in Geriatrics and Endocrinology at the University of Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration currently recommends between 400 and 600 International Units (IU) a day. Experts are recommending between 1500 to 2600 IU daily. And there&#8217;s no concern for overdoing it since it&#8217;s safe to take 40,000 IU a day or even a little more.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Vitamin D is essential for bone health and improves muscle function. And there&#8217;s also evidence that shows it&#8217;s essential in warding off <a title=\"mediterranean diet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/more-reasons-to-go-mediterranean\/\" target=\"_self\">asthma symptoms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors from Harvard Medical School studied over 600 Costa Rican children with asthma. They found that children with lower vitamin D levels were significantly more likely to have been hospitalized for asthma. They were also more likely to have airways with increased hyper-reactivity and were likely to have used more inhaled corticosteroids.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To our knowledge this is the first study to demonstrate an inverse association between circulating levels of vitamin D and markers of asthma severity and <a title=\"gluten free diet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Gluten-Free_Diet\/\" target=\"_self\">allergy<\/a>,&#8221; wrote Drs. Juan Celed\u00f3n and Augusto Litonjua.<\/p>\n<p>(via: <a title=\"Science Daily\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/04\/090423082638.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Science Daily<\/a> &amp; <a title=\"vitamin d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/2009\/05\/18\/Experts-say-current-recommendations-for-Vitamin-D-grossly-inadequate.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">News-Medical.net<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts are warning that current recommendations for daily vitamin D intake are &#8220;grossly inadequate.&#8221; &#8220;National recommendations from the Food and Nutrition Board are 400 to 600 International Units (IU) a day,&#8221; says Neil Binkley, MD, an Associate Professor in Geriatrics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/vitamin-d-deficiency-makes-asthma-worse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1367,3695],"tags":[1726,67,29,383,189],"class_list":["post-10446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-health","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-asthma","tag-diet","tag-nutrition","tag-research-studies","tag-vitamin-d"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10446"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10451,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10446\/revisions\/10451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}