Rickets makes comeback
By Linda on Feb 6, 2010 in Interesting Stories
Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7043698/Rickets-makes-comeback-among-computer-generation.html
Excerpt:
They said youngsters were spending more time indoors on their computers rather than previous generations who spent time playing outside with their friends.
The two medical experts have called for Vitamin D to be added to milk and other food products.
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.
