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And no one has yet mentioned rickets! Once virtually eliminated, rickets has increased markedly, in some studies as much as five-fold. In the malls I now occas
by giardini 12y ago
And no one has yet mentioned rickets!
Once virtually eliminated, rickets has increased markedly, in some studies as much as five-fold. In the malls I now occasionally see children who obviously have rickets. Unless corrected early, the adult will bear the scars of the child.
Also there is mention that ingestion of vitamin D is superior to sun exposure but AFAIK there is no evidence of that. The ingestive route has it's own problems.
- ryandvm 12y agoIt's worse than that. There is reasonable evidence that vitamin D deficiency contributes to a number of cancers and that heavy use of sunscreen has a questionable benefit on net mortality rates. http://www.medpagetoday.com/HematologyOncology/SkinCancer/7888 http://www.medpagetoday.com/HematologyOncology/SkinCancer/78...