A vociferous debate about vitamin-D supplementation reveals the difficulty of distilling strong advice from weak evidence.
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Maxmen, A. Nutrition advice: The vitamin D-lemma. Nature 475, 23–25 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/475023a
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