An Indian American researcher, Seema Kumar who is also a paediatric endocrinologist in the Mayo Clinic Children’s Centre has discovered that giving teenagers extra vitamin D pills can elevate their cholesterol level.
Kumar said “After three months of having vitamin D boosted into the normal range with supplements, the teenagers showed no changes in body weight, body mass index, waistline, blood pressure or blood flow.
“We are not saying the links between vitamin D deficiency and chronic diseases do not exist for children – we just haven’t found any yet.
“I am surprised that we haven’t found more health benefit.”
Kumar has been studying the effects of vitamin D supplementation in children for 10 years through four clinical trials and six published studies.