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India enjoys year-round tropical sunshine, yet between 70 to 90 per cent of the population suffers from Vitamin D deficiency. This public health contradiction—known widely as the “Vitamin D paradox”—is emerging as a silent epidemic across the country. Medical practitioners point out that while sunlight availability is nearly limitless in …

India receives abundant, direct sunlight for nearly 300 days a year, yet clinical screenings reveal that an estimated 70 to 80 percent of its population suffers from suboptimal or deficient levels of Vitamin D. Known colloquially as the “sunshine vitamin,” Vitamin D is technically a secosteroid prohormone essential for calcium …