Recent medical research on vitamin D has shown amazing results. As we mentioned in an earlier post, vitamin D helps prevent so many serious diseases that some are calling it the “new wonder drug.”

And now it turns out that children actually need twice as much vitamin D as had been previously recommended. Instead of 200 units, they need 400.

Doctors have now found that vitamin D in the higher dosages prevents not only rickets and other diseases in children that have been known for generations. It has now been discovered that high-enough dosages of vitamin D also prevent diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and other deadly conditions. And unlike prescriptions drugs, vitamin D it is cheap and completely safe.

Furthermore, researchers say, the amount of vitamin D that children and teenagers need to be healthy is far too much to get just from food. Children (and adults) need to take vitamin D supplements to stay healthy.

Childhood bone cancer is a devastating and tragic disease. Despite the state of the art in current cancer treatment, bone cancer in children results in amputation for 80% of young patients.

But now there is hope. Promising new medical research in Britain, conducted on dogs (which suffer from a similar form of bone cancer) shows that it may soon be possible to use stem cells to cure bone cancer in children.