More than 90% of Americans do not get their Estimated Average Requirement (EAR) for vitamin D, according to the Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Long recognized as important for healthy bones, vitamin D is now recognized as having multiple benefits beyond bone health. Dairy producers and processors need to do more to promote milk, the leading source of vitamin D in the U.S. diet, and to fortify additional dairy foods with this critical nutrient.
In 2014, there were over 4,500 articles published in PubMed on vitamin D, and there are currently more than 1,000 ongoing human studies on the vitamin.