Vitamin D

After reading this article in Science News about the utility of vitamin D, I decided that maybe our annual sunburn in Hawaii isn't going to suffice for sunlight for the entire year. So I picked up these drops at Whole Foods, though I see now they are cheaper at amazon.com. My Squigglepants LOVES taking them and watching the little drop slide out. My only concern is that it doesn't have a child-proof cap, and she may decide to self-medicate (but usually I hear the dragging and clunky stacking of her furniture-tower-ladder before she gets too close to the top shelf). In fact, she likes them so much that I use the drops to bribe her to eat her chewable vitamin, Rainbow Light's Kids' One, which I think tastes good--like Smarties (but we found out this Halloween that she doesn't like Smarties either). I chose the Kid's One vitamin because the ingredients sounded better than a lot of other kid vitamins (like no gelatin--ground up bones--for us vegetarians), and I imagined that the even the vegetarian gummy vitamins would be worse for the teeth. And more about vitamin D: I read that you need D3 not D2, and I read that you need to take vitamin D for many months to get your levels to recover. That concludes my very scientific research, so you're better off just researching it yourself.

P.S. D2 is from plants and doesn't last as long and D3 is from sheep wool. Read this.