Show ' i People lack necessary Vitamin D in winter Health officials are concerned that Americana may not be getting enough vitamin D a nutrient that is needed to maintain strong bones ’ " 77 Sunlight Exposure to sunlight triggers vitamin D production Standing In the sun tor 15 minutes a day three thnes a week Is recommended although during the winter months the sun may not be strong enough WASHINGTON (AP)— Millions of Americans may not get enough vitamin D a nutnent important fix strong 7 bones It is a problem made worse in the winter when the sun’s rays are not intense enough in most of the country to' help bodies make the sunshine vitamin Substituting food can be difficult because of a lack of vitamin options Already doctors are urging 1 sule carrying an American a Russian and a Spaniard from - the international space station vi landed safely Tuesday in the w ’ n steppes of Kaza- FbftH&r Fortified Conkhstan Russian Mission trol said American Ed Lu and Russian Yuri Malenchenko who flew to the space station nearly six months ago in the same Soyuz and Spaniard Pedro Duque who arrived at the station eight days ago on a different capsule emerged smiling AP and appeared healthy “Everything went great We In England researchers ' were very fortunate It was as writing last week in the joursmooth a landing as could nal Lancet urged that children have been hoped for” said below the age of puberty and Gen Vladimir Popov who pregnant women receive vitaheads the team responsible for min D supplements as a Russia’s space search and res- - : ' net” “safety cue operations While NIH considers what NASA spokesman Ron! to recommend people should Navias agreed saying “It was makes special effort to eat a dream landing It is almost foods fortified with vitaminD on as if they hit the advises CDC epidemiologist the ground” Duque was presented with Kelley Scanlon “We can’t an on expoapple die symbol of Kazaonly sunlight rely khstan after the landing 7 sure’’- Food containing vitamin D ‘ wide-ope- SOUflCE: NWknS that breast-fe- d babies get vitamin D supplements to fend off a shocking return of rickets a disease most often seen in children that was thought eliminated decades ago - V MKuIm of HMSh cent of white women in the winter and 2 percent in die summer Levels among foil in between The NIH is now facing two questions: What to do about people who do not meet today’s allotment and whether it is time to raise everybody’s recommended dose Both will require much more research says Mary Frances Picciano of the NIH’s Office of Dietary Supple-meriVXV-- ne His-pani- cs With increasing evidence that adults too may lack die nutrient scientists are debat-in-g whether it is time to pump up everybody’s level ofvita-min- D - Vitamin D helps bones absorb calcium and rickets marks just the worst deficiency specialists told a recent National Institutes of Health j meeting to assess die issue :7“ In adults osteoporosis “cannot be pre-vented at currently recom- - 7- mended doses” said Dr Robert Heaney of Creighton University a specialist on bone health Government bkxxl tests suggest a surprising number ' of Americans do not get cur-- 7 rently recommended amounts' especially those with dark-- " 7 pigmented skin that does not vita-mi- n : produce as much of the from sunlight-- ' I ARKALYK Kazakhstan (AP) — A Soyuz space cap- icy D-ri- ch soft-bo- Capsule lands safely after ref urn from space station Vitamin D needed more during winter ' rk ts ' All The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday October 28 2003t— Malenchenko received tea All three space travelers appeared tired but happy “It is greiri to be back home The landing went just fine” Lu said smiling The Spaniard speaking Russian said the landing “was very soft almost like Y training” adding that he would have loved to have stayed up in space longer The 3 1 trip back to Earth was only the second time a US astronaut has returned in a Russian craft to foreign soil Since the disintegration of the space shuttle Columbia in February put NASA manned space flights on hold the Russian Soyuz capsules have been the linchpin of the space station pro- am pm EST) Moscow time (9:40 ’ ' Russian Mission Control Chief Vladimir Solovyov said all systems on the Soyuz worked fine The capsule was charred black and laying on its side when spotted not far from Arkalyk in Kazakhstan Russian aerospace engineers said there was only a slim chance this crew would experience the same computer malfunction that sent the sta- tion’s previous inhabitants on 7 such a steep trajectory home 7 that their tongues rolled back in their mouths The May landing was so far that more than two hours passed before rescuers knew the men were safe Kazakhstan where the ' Russian manned space pro--' :V gram also has its launch pad agreed to a Russian request to close off a wider swath of airspace than for the previous mission said Mikhail Zotov 7 the search and rescue Y7 spokesman off-targ- al et ng gram Officials at Mission Control outside Moscow and others waiting in Kazakhstan for the landing were pleased that this mission avoided the wild ride of the last Soyuz descent in May which ended with the American and Russian crew going some 250 miles off-cour- se due to a computer ! 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