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American Diets May Lack Vitamin D

By Christopher Wanjek, LiveScience's Bad Medicine Columnist
posted: 19 August 2008 01:17 pm ET


A little knowledge can kill you.
A similar misunderstanding appears to be spreading about vitamin D. More and more people are realizing that they are lactose intolerant. So they eliminate milk from their diets.
People also are worried about sun exposure and skin cancer, so they slop on sunscreen whenever they go out or otherwise avoid direct sunlight. And mercury is scaring folks away from eating fish.
As a result, some people are losing all sources of vitamin D. For the first time in a century, doctors are seeing a resurgence in rickets, that bone-deforming disease once endemic to wobbly-kneed child laborers in the Victorian era who never saw the light of day.
Pediatricians in Philadelphia have reported more than 150 new cases in the past three years, up from about zero. Washington, D.C., and other areas with large African-American populations are reporting the similar increases.
No formal studies have found the precise cause of the rickets — be it less milk consumption, less sun exposure, or other factors — but it does appear that Americans in general aren't getting enough vitamin D.



SOURCE LINK: Health American Diets May Lack Vitamin DBy Christopher Wanjek, LiveScience's Bad Medicine Columnist posted: 19 August 2008 01:17 pm ET

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^ up 150% but you won't see that headlining any major news media :)

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"under exposure to UV rays is as dangerous as overexposure....this is D life" eileen