Just step into any Whole Foods and you’ll get the picture. That’s considering many mothers themselves are deficient in vitamin D. They now recommend infants receive 400 universal units of vitamin D each day. The primary source of vitamin is Mother Nature, by way of that big bright ball in the sky.

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But, there is one little, often overlooked vitamin that continues to receive rave reviews from the medical experts: the big D. Yes, vitamin D is in the news again.

The American Academy of Pediatrics now recommends infants get twice as much vitamin D as they did just, well, just last week. Why the change? But, with air pollution, sunscreen and fear of skin cancer, the sun has fewer opportunities to work its magic these days.

Vitamin D helps prevent rickets in children, a disease that softens the bones and causes stunted growth. Though rickets is rare in the U.S., there are other significant benefits to vitamin D, including protection from osteoporosis later in life.

So forsake the credit manager, but not the little powerhouse vitamin D.