Vegetarians and vitamin D

With people having spent weeks indoors and the prospect of sunny foreign holidays looking limited, a leading nutritionist is urging us to increase depleted vitamin D levels through considering what food we eat.

This comes as fresh research reveals that the usual way of getting vitamin D is via supplements for 19% of us, while fewer than one-in-ten of us (9%) do so via vitamin D rich foods.

Furthermore one in four of us admit we don’t get our daily recommended vitamin intake and another quarter say they have “no clue” what their recommended daily dose should be.

Aston spoke to Madeleine Shaw, nutritional therapist and author to discuss how we can give our immune system a natural boost not just as we emerge from lockdown but in the long term too.

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