Day 2

To qualify, I needed to pass a blood test that my Vitamin D is below average.
We were then randomly placed into a Vitamin D or placebo group.  The vitamin D levels between 10 and 32 ng/mL is considered "insufficient" in this trial. The study pill contains 2000 IU or the placebo (with no active ingredient) and a computerized program selected me into a group, which is unknown to the participants as well as the researchers. It will take a year for me to find out which group I am in. 

The real risks of an overdose occur only after 50,000 IU and 3000 IU are regularly administered. As for the “under dose risk” researchers believe that there will not be great impact of living with insufficient Vitamin D for another year.

Yesterday, I walked home with a bottle full of a half a years supply of either Vitamin D or a placebo under my arm.

Since I always forget if I took my pill for that day, I pasted a tiny calendar on my bottle and highlight the date after I take Vitamin D for that day.

Well I passed the test; I think my level was at 28ng/ml.

PS  My father worked for Casimir Funk who coined the term, Vitamin.

Vita for life and Amin for the amino acids necessary for growth and health.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_the_did_the_word_vitamin_come_from

The discovery of the vitamins began with experiments performed by Hopkins at the beginning of the twentieth century; he fed rats on a defined diet providing the then known nutrients: fats, proteins, carbohydrates, and mineral salts. The animals failed to grow, but the addition of a small amount of milk to the diet both permitted the animals to maintain normal growth and restored growth to the animals that had previously been fed the defined diet. He suggested that milk contained one or more "accessory growth factors" essential nutrients present in small amounts, because the addition of only a small amount of milk to the diet was sufficient to maintain normal growth and development. An amine is any of a class of basic organic compounds derived from ammonia by replacement of hydrogen with one or more monovalent hydrocarbon radicals The first of the accessory food factors to be isolated and identified was found to be chemically an amine; therefore, in 1912, Funk coined the term
vitamine, from the Latin vita for "life" and amine, for the prominent chemical reactive group. Although subsequent accessory growth factors were not found To be amines, the name has been retained-with the loss of the final"-e" to avoid chemical confusion. The decision as to whether the word should correctly be pronounced "vitamin" or "veitamin" depends in large part on which system of Latin pronunciation one learned - the Oxford English Dictionary permits both.

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