{"id":3306,"date":"2014-10-20T11:15:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2014-10-20T11:15:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:15:59","slug":"got-milk-no-check-your-vitamin-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/got-milk-no-check-your-vitamin-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Got milk? No? Check your vitamin D<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Children who drink rice, almond, soy or goat\u2019s milk have lower levels of vitamin D in their blood than those who drink cow\u2019s milk, according to a new study. Canadian regulations stipulate that every 100 millilitres of cow\u2019s milk must be fortified with 40 International Units of vitamin D, non-cow\u2019s milk is not subject to this regulation.<\/p>\n<p>The study tracked 3,821 healthy children ages one to six, of which 13 per cent drank only non-cow\u2019s milk. These kids were twice as likely to be vitamin D deficient compared to\u00a0those who drank predominantly cow\u2019s milk.<\/p>\n<p>The authors encourage parents and caregivers to read labels carefully when looking for alternative sources of vitamin D for children\u00a0who don\u2019t drink cow\u2019s milk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmaj.ca\/lookup\/doi\/10.1503\/cmaj.140555\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Canadian Medical Association Journal\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>October 20,\u00a02014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Jonathon Maguire, St. Michael&#8217;s Hospital, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children who drink rice, almond, soy or goat\u2019s milk have lower levels of vitamin D in their blood than those who drink cow\u2019s milk, according to a new study. Canadian regulations stipulate that every 100 millilitres of cow\u2019s milk must be fortified with 40 International Units of vitamin D, non-cow\u2019s milk is not subject to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[975,51,650,50,476],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-children","tag-health","tag-nutrition","tag-ontario","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Rk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3307,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions\/3307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}