Vitamin D is essential for several reasons, including maintaining healthy bones and teeth. It may also
protect against a range of diseases and conditions, such as type 1 diabetes.
Vitamins are nutrients that the body cannot create, and so a person must consume them in the diet.
However, the body can produce vitamin D.
- vitamin D is made by the body with sunlight.
- sesame seeds( til) have the highest calcium (975mg per 100g). Milk has 125mg only.*
- the body is capable of storing vitamin D up to a year, and use the reserves.
- lastly, the body is capable of getting its vitamin D reserves full with 3 full days of sunlight.
- the best quality of sunlight is end of winter & beginning of summer.
Now join the dots, and see how wise our sages were of ancient India. They created a festival of flying
kites where by our kids get excited to go in the open, under direct sunlight, throughout the day starting
from early morning. And their mothers feed them homemade TIL laddoos.
Chanchal Aggarwal
Assistant Clinical Nutritionist
