Vitamin D helps regulate the amount of calcium and phosphate in the body.These nutrients are needed to keep bones, teeth and muscles healthy.
A lack of vitamin D can lead to bone deformities such as rickets in children, and bone pain caused by a condition called osteomalacia in adults.
FOOD SOURCES
*The body creates vitamin D from direct sunlight on the skin when outdoors.
Vitamin D is also found in a small number of foods. Otherwise Vitamin D can be found on only a handful of food sources .

Sources include:

*oily fish – such as salmon, sardines, herring and mackerel
*red meat
*liver
*egg yolks
*fortified foods – such as some fat spreads and breakfast cereals

Vitamin D for bones

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