Pediatricians: Vitamin D for everyone!

The German Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine has significantly expanded its recommendations on vitamin D supply – in response to the fact that children are becoming lazier. In the future, not only babies, but all children and adolescents should receive additional vitamin D..

By Lajos Schöne Published: 1/12/2012, 5:02 PM

TV consumption instead of raging outside encourages a lack of vitamins.

"In Germany, the daily intake of vitamin D with food is sometimes considerably below the recommended values", says Professor Berthold Koletzko, chairman of the Child Health Foundation.