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BECAUSE the human body can't synthesize it without sunlight and as many people don't get enough solar exposition they are lacking it, and the darker the skin the more sun you need to make. It is a vitamin necessary to fix calcium in bones and many other less known functions. You can alternately get vitamin D from dairy products and fish, in fact children used to be given cod liver oil (not tasty at all) to provide for vitamin D. Children without enough develop a bone disease called rickets and adults develop osteomalacia, and it can be serious.

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