Got vitamin D?

It's Sunday. So let's venture off politics for a moment. During my last physical, my doctor suggested I get tested to see if I had a Vitamin D deficiency. I was like, the sunlight and milk vitamin? How do you not get enough of that? Doc said, lots of people don't, and lots don't get tested. So we added the test into the mix, and what do you know - deficient. The "cure" is pretty simple - take 1,000 IU of Vitamin D a day, easily bought at the local pharmacy (I get the 2,000 IU pills and split them). Don't self-medicate, because there's no way of knowing if you aren't getting enough Vitamin D, and if you are, you don't want to OD on the stuff. But do ask your doctor about it at your next physical - after all, that's why we pay the losers at Blue Cross so much money every year. Here's a recent article about it as well.