Rickets makes comeback among computer generation
By Linda on Feb 20, 2010 in Interesting Stories
The growth of the computer generation and changing lifestyles among children are leading to a Vitamin D deficiency and a rise in cases of rickets, medical experts have warned
Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7043698/Rickets-makes-comeback-among-computer-generation.html
Excerpt:
They said modern diets often lack Vitamin D and this could be a big reason – along with changing lifestyles – for the increasing health problems, in particular rickets in children.
The main source of Vitamin D is sunlight, through skin exposure. But it is also present in a small number of foods, such as oily fish or cod liver oil.
Writing a clinical review in the latest issue of the British Medical Journal, Professor Simon Pearce and Dr Tim Cheetham, of Newcastle University, call for a change in public health policy.
Prof Pearce, a professor of endocrinology, said: ”Kids tend to stay indoors more these days and play on their computers instead of enjoying the fresh air.
”This means their Vitamin D levels are worse than in previous years.
”A change in public health policy is required. Health professionals have been slow to deal with this problem, even though we have known about it for a while.
