Vitamin D is the vitamin your body produces when you are exposed to sunlight. It was long held that too much Vitamin D in pregnancy would be harmful, but new research says otherwise.
"'Pregnant women need to take 4,000 IU of vitamin D a day," says Bruce Hollis, Ph.D., the director of pediatric nutritional sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina, in Charleston, and one of the authors of the study. "We didn't see a single adverse effect. It was absolutely safe, and we saw a lot of improved outcomes. The risk of preterm labor was vastly decreased and so was the risk of other complications of pregnancy.'"
- Denise Mann for CNN Health
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