How to Feed Your Child Enough Vitamin D

Kids get vitamin D, also known as the "sunshine vitamin," from the sun as well as from food. Here's how to make sure they get enough.

Things You'll Need

• Fatty Fish Like Salmon Or Bluefish
• Shrimp
• Skim Milk

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Instructions

• 1

  Drink non-fat milk for vitamin D as well as calcium. Each cup has 100 IU of vitamin D.

• 2

  Scramble, hard boil or poach eggs. Each one has 25 IU.

• 3

  Grill fatty fish like salmon, mackerel and bluefish. Three ounces of salmon has about 300 IU.

• 4

  Don't skimp on shrimp. Three ounces of shrimp has 150 IU.

• 5

  Send kids outside to play. Fifteen minutes of sun exposure on hands and face each day will almost meet their vitamin D needs.