1. Vita-D3TM Here Comes the Sun
Let’s talk about our newest vitamin supplement – a product that many of you have been asking for because vitamin D has been in the news so much in recent years. It’s Vita-D3™, a convenient way to get more of vitamin D, the “sunshine vitamin.”

2. 80% of Canadians may have insufficient levels of vitamin D.
DID YOU KNOW?
80%
of Canadians may have insufficient levels of vitamin D.
Many studies in the last ten years have shown that a majority of Canadians, at least 80% – and more in some studies – have a vitamin D deficiency.

3. WHY VITAMIN D IS IMPORTANT
FACT
Almost 2 million women and men in Canada suffer from osteoporosis.
Vitamin D is essential for calcium absorption for maintaining strong bones and teeth.
Vitamin D – combined with adequate calcium, a healthy diet, and regular exercise – may reduce the risk of osteoporosis.
FACT
Osteoporosis Canada reports on its Web site that almost 2 million Canadians are living with osteoporosis. 1 in 4 women and at least 1 in 8 men over 50 have osteoporosis.
Vitamin D is known to be essential for calcium absorption for maintaining strong bones and teeth and Health Canada authorizes the claim that “vitamin D, combined with calcium, a healthy diet, and regular exercise, may reduce the risk of osteoporosis.”
FACT

4. VITAMIN D IS ALSO IMPORTANT…
FACT
Increased levels of vitamin D can boost your heart health.
FACT
Increased levels of vitamin D can help strengthen your immune system.
FACT
Vitamin D plays a major role in healthy cell development.
Research is also being done on many more aspects of health affected by vitamin D status, including the boosting of heart health, strengthening the immune system, and healthy cell development.
If you have read a newspaper or magazine lately, you’ll know that vitamin D is connected to all sorts of bodily functions and health conditions, so that’s why Health Canada also lets us say it’s “a factor in the maintenance of good health.”
“Vitamin D is factor in the maintenance of good health.”

5. ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH VITAMIN D?
You may need MORE vitamin D during fall and winter.
You may need MORE
vitamin D if you are olive- skinned or darker.
The sun’s rays makes a vitamin D precursor in our skin, so you may need more vitamin D in the fall and winter, when you’re less likely to get sun exposure.
It’s also a fact that people of colour, especially those of African and east Asian background, absorb less UVB radiation from the sun’s rays and make less vitamin D than persons of lighter skin colour. Darker skin contains a natural sunblock that makes it harder for the skin to make vitamin D.

6. ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH VITAMIN D?
You may need MORE vitamin D if you work indoors.
You may need MORE vitamin D as you age.
Of course, if you work indoors during the day, you won’t get any sun exposure, so you would need extra vitamin D. And as you age, your skin loses its ability to make vitamin D from sunshine, so the older you get, the more vitamin D you’ll need.

7. You may need MORE vitamin D if you live north of 35º north latitude
ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH VITAMIN D?
You may need MORE vitamin D if you live north of 35º north latitude
Los Angeles, CA
The farther north or south of the equator you live, the less effective the UVB rays of the sun will be in producing vitamin D in the skin. Persons living above 35º latitude, which includes all of Canada, don’t receive sufficient sunlight during the winter months to produce adequate levels of vitamin D.
If you’re an Inuit living in our northernmost regions, you’re probably getting all your vitamin D from fatty fish, but you’re an exception!
Columbia, SC

8. ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH VITAMIN D?
You may need MORE vitamin D if you are overweight.
You may need MORE
vitamin D if you don’t exercise regularly.
Vitamin D is stored in fatty tissue, so if you’re overweight or obese, you will need to get more vitamin D to maintain an optimal level of circulating vitamin D. People who don’t exercise regularly also need to take additional vitamin D. Weight-bearing exercise is certainly important in building strong bones, so you need to ensure you get enough vitamin D and calcium.
Foods rich in vitamin D include eggs, chicken livers, salmon, sardines, herring, mackerel, swordfish, and fish liver oils, but most of these aren’t eaten regularly enough to supply an adequate daily dosage of vitamin D to consumers. While milk, margarine, and some cereals and juices are fortified with vitamin D, diet alone just isn’t able to bring most Canadians to acceptable levels.
Foods rich in vitamin D: eggs, chicken livers, salmon, sardines, herring, mackerel, swordfish, and fish liver oils

9. Easy-to-swallow 1,000 IU tablets
VITA-D3TM
Add some sunshine to your day!
Easy-to-swallow 1,000 IU tablets
So, Shaklee’s response is to add some sunshine to your day with our convenient, easy-to-swallow vitamin D tablet supplement, Vita-D3™!
Vitamin D supports: healthy bones and teeth; healthy heart; strong immune system; healthy cell development

10. VITA-D3TM Always Works—With Vitamin D3, the Most Potent Form
High potency 1,000 IU (25 mcg) supplement
Contains vitamin D3, more potent than vitamin D2, clinically proven to maintain levels of serum hydroxyvitamin D in the body
Allows customizable intakes in 1,000 IU dosage units in combination with vitamin D3 intake from existing Shaklee products
Shaklee Vita-D3 is a high-potency formula with 1,000 IU of the most potent form of supplemental vitamin D – the D3 (or cholecalciferol) rather than the D2 (or ergocalciferol) form.
D3 is twice as potent as D2 in preparing serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D, the form of vitamin D that circulates in the bloodstream.
This potency allows you to customize your total vitamin D intake by easily adding 1,000 IU to your daily dosage from other Shaklee products.

11. OTHER GREAT SHAKLEE CANADA PRODUCTS
with sources of vitamin D3
Vitamin D/day*
Vitalizers
600 IU
Vita-Lea®
400 IU
Super Cal Mag Plus
Chewable Cal Mag Plus
200 IU
For example, if you’re already taking products like Shaklee Vitalizer, Vita-Lea, one of Cal Mag Plus products, or various Cinch products, you can easily add an extra 1,000 IU of vitamin D to your regimen to increase your blood levels and improve your health.
Cinch ® Shakes
240 IU
Cinch ® 3-in-1 Boost
260 IU *
*Note that the vitamin D content of these products is different than the content of similar US products.

12. VITA-D3TM Always Works—Cutting-Edge Nutrition Science
Shaklee Vita-D3™ is the culmination of recent scientific research, including two industry-leading Shaklee vitamin D studies
Always Safe
Over 300 quality tests
No artificial flavours, sweeteners, colours, or preservatives added
Gluten free
Star-K kosher certified
100% Shaklee Guaranteed
Shaklee Vita-D3 allows you to benefit from all the research that has been done on vitamin D in the last decade, including two industry-leading Shaklee studies.
Like other Shaklee nutritional supplements, it will come as no surprise that Vita-D3 gets the usual Shaklee treatment at the quality control level. Over 300 tests are done in the making of every batch of Vita-D3 tablets. The formula contains NO artificial flavours, sweeteners, colours, or preservatives and is gluten free and Star-K kosher certified. Last, but not least, Vita-D3 is 100% guaranteed by Shaklee – your money back or a replacement if you’re dissatisfied in any way.

13. VITA-D3TM Canadian Label Information
NPN / 90 tablets per bottle
Directions: Take 1 tablet daily
Medicinal ingredient:
Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) … 25 mcg (1,000 IU)
Non-medicinal ingredients: dicalcium phosphate dihydrate, microcrystalline cellulose, sucrose, corn starch, magnesium stearate, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, gum arabic, croscarmellose sodium, silicon dioxide, tricalcium phosphate, dl-alpha tocopherol, carnauba wax, hydroxylated soy lecithin
While we will start marketing the product in US packaging, eventually we will have a Canadian label showing all the necessary information required by Health Canada, which you can see in this slide.

14. Easy-to-swallow 1,000 IU tablets
VITA-D3TM
Add some sunshine to your day!
Easy-to-swallow 1,000 IU tablets
So, put some extra sunshine in your life every day, even the rainy ones, with Shaklee Vita-D3!