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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
4. Odd.
Fri May 30, 2014, 11:43 AM
May 2014

You don't need that much calcium and direct sunlight to not get that.

Note here from the UK :

Rickets soar as children stay indoors: Number diagnosed with disease quadruples in last ten years.

Some experts fear that parents obsessing about protecting their children from sunlight, which boosts the body’s level of the key vitamin, has led to the rise.

It is also thought that children spending more time indoors on computer games, more parents driving their kids to school and fewer children taking cod liver oil capsules have all contributed to the rise.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2543724/Rickets-soar-children-stay-indoors-Number-diagnosed-disease-quadruples-ten-years.html#ixzz33DJIEBD2

Young children here, up until age 5 from , memory , DID get orange juice, powdered milk and malt on the NHS - not sure when that stopped


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