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Pediatrics, the medical journal, snared coverage on all three newscasts for its study of Vitamin D deficiency. NBC's in-house physician Nancy Snyderman quoted the statistics: 9% of those aged one to 21 are D-deficient, totaling 7.6m people nationwide, with another 50.8m having insufficient levels. "Getting enough Vitamin D is free," she pointed out. "It means getting out in the sunshine about 10 or 15 minutes a day without sunscreen." CBS' in-house physician Jennifer Ashton did not suggest the free way: "They can get enough from fortified foods such as milk, cereal, fish or orange juice"--otherwise a multivitamin does the trick. ABC's John McKenzie pointed out that vitamin supplements are taken by only 4% of children. CBS anchor Katie Couric remembered another source: "That is why our parents made us take cod liver oil when we were kids."
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