{"id":568500,"date":"2026-03-29T11:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568500\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T11:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:17:08","slug":"how-to-get-vitamin-d-from-sunlight-food-supplements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568500\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Get Vitamin D From Sunlight, Food &#038; Supplements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vitamin D is an essential nutrient. But it&#8217;s rare to get enough of it from food and sunshine alone without being very intentional. In fact, research has shown that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5579642\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5579642\/\" data-citation-link=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">93<\/a><a href=\"#citations\" data-citation-number=\"1\">1<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3174857\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3174857\/\" data-citation-link=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">100%<\/a><a href=\"#citations\" data-citation-number=\"2\">2<\/a> of Americans fail to consume just 400 IU from their diet each day, and many experts say 5,000 IU per day is needed for optimal health. Further, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/29644951\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/29644951\/\" data-citation-link=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">almost half the population<\/a><a href=\"#citations\" data-citation-number=\"3\">3<\/a> in the U.S. is insufficient in the sunshine vitamin (considering all inputs from sun, diet, etc.!), which just really isn&#8217;t great news for our overall health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vitamin D is an essential nutrient. But it&#8217;s rare to get enough of it from food and sunshine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[49,48,84,18832,395,3654],"class_list":{"0":"post-568500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mbgsupplements","12":"tag-nutrition","13":"tag-vitamin-d"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}