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Why in heaven's name would anyone not add vitamins to milk? Especially vitamin D. We had a severe rickets epidemic among kids in the USA that completely stopped when the state dictated that milk should be enriched with D. Our bodies cannot synthesize D and it does not occur naturally in the foods we eat. (Except for a few fish dishes.) Nature intended for us to get it by exposure to sunlight, but few people get enough sun, including kids who spend a lot of time indoors in class rooms and in the home.
The demand for unenriched milk must be fuelled by a bunch of hippies again. Probably the same sunshines who preach against vaccination. However, they're not worthy of a title like "sunshine".
See this thread:
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Er .. fascinating but totally irrelevant. It is the upside down logic of this ruling that's in question. The ruling in short says that if you produce the natural product skimmed milk you must describe it as artificial unless you artificially add vitamins. In other words you can only call it natural if it's artificial!
Nobody's arguing that enhancing the vitamin content of milk is a bad thing in itself, although you should be aware that the practice is not one adopted by many countries outside USA, and certainly not in UK. All anyone's saying is that if, in the state of Florida where, let's face it, you have to work pretty damned hard to get neither enough sun nor dietary vitamin D, people want to sell or buy natural milk products they should be allowed to do so without having to pick through obscure and deliberately misleading descriptions.
I do have to wonder how you hold the following two statements to be both true?
Cornelius Henning wrote: Nature intended for us to get it by exposure to sunlight
Cornelius Henning wrote: Our bodies cannot synthesize D
And as for ...
Cornelius Henning wrote: it does not occur naturally in the foods we eat
Well, yeah, it does, in milk. The fortification of milk is supplementary not introductory! Also, not just fish, salmon and tuna principally, but eggs, mushrooms, pork, tofu, and cheeses, especially ricotta! Also there are plenty of other fortified foods available including orange juice, and breakfast cereals.
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It's a fact that vitamin D is created by sunlight in our skins. Google it if you want to confirm.
And: The term "vitamin" is usually reserved for essential nutrients that the body cannot synthesize, or in the case of vitamins like niacin, not in sufficient quantities. You have to get it from foods, or in the case of D, mainly from sunlight or enriched milk. Feel free to research this if you don't believe me. 
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What is the process of creating vitamin D from 7-dehydrocholesterol under UVB radiation if it's not synthesis then?
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It's good to see you've done some research.
I am not an expert, but I suppose the people who defined the term "synthesis" excluded production of nutrients that are produced with help from external factors, like sunlight. Who knows exactly what their criteria were?
The whole field of "essential nutrients" is fascinating to study.
Did you read up on rickets? You may find it very interesting:
Rickets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^]
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Skimmed milk is not a natural product itself. It is produced by removing nutrients from natural full milk.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Probably the same sunshines who preach against vaccination
There are those who preach the other way[^]
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A good one. Thanks for posting.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: but few people get enough sun,
Are we not talking about Florida?
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My doctor told me that a significant percentage of his patients here in Florida have tested deficient in D. So: It seems to be an issue even in Florida, but possibly worse elsewhere.
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I hope I have not missed a prior to this...
Emailed from one of my c# answers
Member 12428963 has posted a reply to your message at "C#":
Hi,i am Miss Nancy, i went around your profile here now and i took intrested to be your friend please reply me here now redacted email i want you to reply me there so i will send you my pics and my details Thanks Miss Nancy, redacted email waiting for you Reply!
She looked at my profile and liked what she saw!!!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
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Well, you do admit to getting paid!
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I'd be very tempted to go here: Mailinator[^] and reply...it'd be interesting to see just who is (theoratically) interested in your avatar!
Maybe she runs a zoo? 
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Sorry to disappoint but you weren't the only one she liked so much 
But you're in good company, Chris caught her attention, too 
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She's clearly got a "busy night" planned!
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Haha! 
I really, really, really like this joke
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: She looked at my profile and liked what she saw!!!
Who are we to judge? 
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So you could say things are getting pretty serious 
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Sounds like she'd be a prime-mate.
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So what do her pictures look like?
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Pictures.
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OK, the critics panned it, and by all reports people have been staying away from it in droves.
But... the computer gamers take on the actual outcome[^]
Perhap a little more accurate?
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Isn't that the problem with Superman in general though? Three quarters of every story is spent coming up with some convoluted reason to justify it not ending on the first page.
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