900 pages and zero thought. That is my summation of the IOM’s new calcium and vitamin D statement. Having been a member of such consensus panels in the past, I am sympathetic to their tendency to fall to the most conservative “lowest common denominator” opinion. However, this document is far from a reasonable scientific assessment. Considering the research they ignored and my clinical experience, I am disappointed for the people who will suffer needlessly.
Go to http://www.grassrootshealth.net/iomquotes if you want to read comments from other scientists. Also, the Vitamin D Council is filing a request under the Freedom of Information Act that IOM release the recommendations submitted to them by vitamin D researchers and Walter Willett from Harvard, all of whom supposedly recommended higher standards than IOM.