A recent study, published in the Archives of Disease in Children, found giving children vitamin D supplements while they are infants lowers their risk of developing type 1 diabetes later on in life.
 
Infants who were given supplements were 29 percent less likely to develop type 1 diabetes compared with infants who never received extra vitamin D. Researchers were unable to say how much vitamin D the children were getting from sources other than supplements, but past research has often come to the same conclusion.

This article originally appeared in the April 2008 issue of AAKP Diet Tips & Bits.