Brie for Breakfast

Welcome to the European Breakfast Buffet.  Calcium rich foods are featured in cheeses and yogurts.  At least 3 choices of cheeses on a rotation from day to day.  Yogurt comes...

You Are What You Eat

Does this mean that you have to eat bones to have strong bones?  Well, sort of.  While it is fun to envision people chewing on Flintstone-sized bones, the Flintstone characters...

Are We Cabbages?

A patient recently insisted on Vitamin D2 instead of D3.  She told me that she always uses plant sources because they are “more natural”.  Indeed Vitamin D2 (Ergocalciferol) is more...

Natural Vitamin D

A patient last week wanted to only use “Natural Vitamin D.”  The “most natural” comes from exposing your skin to the sun at mid-day (1:13 pm CDT in Waterloo) in...