'Today, the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) has failed millions...' - x

3:00 PM PST November 30, 2010

After 13 year of silence, the quasi governmental agency, the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Food and Nutrition Board (FNB), today recommended that a three-pound premature infant take virtually the same amount of vitamin D as a 300 pound pregnant woman. While that 400 IU/day dose is close to adequate for infants, 600 IU/day in pregnant women will do nothing to help the three childhood epidemics most closely associated with gestational and early childhood vitamin D deficiencies: asthma, auto-immune disorders, and, as recently reported in the largest pediatric journal in the world, autism. Professor Bruce Hollis of the Medical University of South Carolina has shown pregnant and lactating women need at least 5,000 IU/day, not 600.

The FNB also reported that vitamin D toxicity might occur at an intake of 10,000 IU/day (250 micrograms/day), although they could produce no reproducible evidence that 10,000 IU/day has ever caused toxicity in humans and only one poorly conducted study indicating 20,000 IU/day may cause mild elevations in serum calcium, but not clinical toxicity.

Viewed with different measure, this FNB report recommends that an infant should take 10 micrograms/day (400 IU) and a pregnant woman 15 micrograms/day (600 IU). As a single, 30 minute dose of summer sunshine gives adults more than 10,000 IU (250 micrograms), the FNB is apparently also warning that natural vitamin D input — as occurred from the sun before the widespread use of sunscreen — is dangerous. That is, the FNB is implying that God does not know what she is doing.

Disturbingly, this FNB committee focused on bone health, just like they did 14 years ago. They ignored the thousands of studies from the last ten years that showed higher doses of vitamin D helps: heart health, brain health, breast health, prostate health, pancreatic health, muscle health, nerve health, eye health, immune health, colon health, liver health, mood health, skin health, and especially fetal health...

--more--
(give it a K&R so others might be alerted to what's going on in America at all levels, political and health)

...for pregnant women and for infants. Their BAD, anti-sun pre- and post-natal advice -- dating from AUgust 1999 journal Pediatrics -- is excused by their IOM FNB colleagues.

The FNB's choice to ignore the past 12 years of research in vitamin D -- where 97% of all that's known was researched -- is equivalent to academic fraud, and probably made to protect the AMA and AAP medical practictioners' from the consequences of their BAD pre-natal advice for pregnant women and and WORSE post-natal advice for care of infants. The Cannell theory of autism explains not only all the other theories' "spectrum" of claims -- e.g. high mercury and toxins levels -- it's also the only theory that explains why boys develop autism at a rate 4 times that of girls. It's acceptance by Harvard in August 2009 is the best-basis environmental trigger for the 30-fold increase in a autism in California, 1990-2007, as reported here. (The so-called "science-based medicine" critique of that study is a bogus piece of crap, a cheap, vaccine-industry-serving vulgar distortion of the study's methodology.)

If Cannell's Aug 2009-accepted theory is correct, the current epidemic of autism is the worst iatrogenic disease in human history -- that is, the worst disease in human history caused by doctors.

Beware, mothers and babyboomers -- the medical boards are protecting their "colleagues" and the health insurance industry, not patients, especially infants.

Just more corporate-assholism -- prime example here -- to go along with systemic GOP election fraud across the country. Fortunately, electronic voting machines in California were not yet controlled by GOP election fraudsters sufficiently such that simpleton CEOs Fiorina and/or Whitman could steal positions of power. Arnold dirtbag SHITzeneggger had already screwed the people in OCT 2003 after engaging in secret political intercourse with fed-identified energy-scamster CEO Ken Lay of Enron. The California economy is still burdened with the $11B debt that Calif Public Enemy #1 Scum-brain SHITzenegger created when he secretly conspired with Ken Lay to undermine the lawsuit of Lt. Gov Bustamante, immediately upon settling his slimey ass in office ($11B decision by novice governor within 72 hours of taking office -- obviously under order from Herr Ken Lay). What a puke-brain, punk ASSHOLE the presumably-former Hitler-loyalist turned out to be. May he rot in Hell, on behalf of the blind and disabled in California who were disenfranchised by program cuts due to SHITzenegger-created burdens against the CA General Fund.

Prime example of shit-brain, simpleton CEO-ISM, and why such stunted-brain, public-conflicted "business" "people" should never be allowed access to positions of public office: http://bit.ly/cgQQtp

Tony 'I want my life back' Hayward "dispersing BP liability" with corexit in the Gulf and Dickhead Cheney in the White House bunker on 9/11 deliberately withholding fire on an object about to strike the Penatagon on 9/11 are models of SIMPLETON, COMPROMISED, CONFLICTED, DISEASED CEO MIND-STATES and how they can only lead to disaster for the public interest.

Hoping for 9/11 re-investigation -- i.e. once a American-people TRUE-representative Congress is ever re-established after flushing out the hackable electronic voting machines and tamperable, vote-switching Lever machines in NY, in control of the radical GOP, from which Susan Eisenhower and a known 344,000 other republicans de-registered between 2006 and 2008.

of weeks, after being tested for vitamin D status and discovering a low level. Previously, she had seen and was intrigued by my own lab results, and I had provided her links to the research on the safety of Vitamin D3. I'm guessing she settled on 10,000 IU/day after reading Dr. Heaney and Dr. Vieth, per reports on the safety of Vitamin D3. I was surprised and impressed (and she was clear-eyed and healthy, in contrast to a year earlier). I'm curious what she might have read, if she's had feedback from colleagues (or patients) and what criteria/factors/info she might also be passing along if so (for example, weight accounts for 50% of variance in dose response).

"Prescribe" was used to convey the dosage the doctor reported using for herself ("for a few weeks"), info volunteered to me. D3 does not require a medical prescription. (I can see how the medically-minded might take objection.)

Here's a "published" report of usage of 10,000 IU/day by a Dr. Leonard Smith (age mid-60s):
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/12/shocking-update-sunshine-can-actually-decrease-your-vitamin-d-levels.aspx


"Your entire assertion is based on the underlying assumption of a giant conspiracy among doctors...

...to try and kill people."

I might partially agree about the first part, i.e., a "conspiracy"...of sorts...initially, perhaps a meager one of silence and suppression by the IOM FNB...but certainly not one even close to being "giant" in stature. From my brief experience with vitamin D since late 2008 and doctors on two separate occasions intending to requisition for me the wrong test for d-status, and, recently, another doctor recommending/"prescribing"/advising(/whatever) 50,000 IU/wk for 25 weeks to a very-deficient 63-yr old (ignoring weight, age, what's been shown clinically safe, and loading dosages), I'd surmise that the very-large majority of current medical practitioners are still quite ignorant about vitamin D, about its foundation for the human innate immune system. The suppression of the 14 vitamin D expert reports by the IOM FNB might be an inkling of a first, larger baby-step towards keeping silent about the dissent and keeping practitioners in ignorance. The vast majority of professionals reading the new IOM reference intakes won't have a clue of the dissent behind it or the 97%-of-all-vitamin-D-knowledge-in-last-decade basis of that dissent. Hopefully there won't be too much delay in acquiring the FNB-suppressed reports under the Freedom of Information Act, so professionals and especially their pregnant patients have opportunity to participate in those weighty decision to perhaps "get more 'sun'" through inexpensive, simple and safe interventions, and so newborns and infants whose mothers might have been bed-ridden for months during term (I know of one) can be called in proactively by their pediatrician and checked for vitamin d deficiency (I heard about one who denied testing a 16-mnth infant despite just such a basis, despite on an insurance plan, despite the study on autism) -- just in case they diligently followed the pre- and post-natal care 1999 guidelines of the AAP...and just in case Dr. Cannell's vitamin d theory of autism has even the slimmest of chances of holding up to scientific scrutiny...as it has, since Aug 2009, at that quackery, Harvard.

Said and implied no such extreme as to the latter. Naughty of you to spit out such an assertion. Can't "kill" by maintaining the status quo of unquestioned questionable medical practices. Perhaps can "let die" unnecessarily, however, i.e., if, for example, Dr Cedric Garland's model predictions are true about 75% of mortalities in North America due to colon and breast cancer being preventable with adequate intake of calcium and vitamin D. That's not really the same as killing. No, just a small conspiracy of silence and suppression so far...during possibly the ongoing worst iatrogenic disease in human history.

Cannell used to believe in conspiracies, but now understands it all to be ignorance.

He's probably right.

Disturbingly, this FNB committee focused on bone health, just like they did 14 years ago. They ignored the thousands of studies from the last ten years that showed higher doses of vitamin D helps: heart health, brain health, breast health, prostate health, pancreatic health, muscle health, nerve health, eye health, immune health, colon health, liver health, mood health, skin health, and especially fetal health...