Vitamin D Deficiency

Mee

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.j.e.j wrote: »

from your link:

O silly me not having had time to reply fully. Try these:

Hospitalisation for children with rickets in England: a historical perspective (Lancet):

Hospitalisation rates for rickets were low in the 1960s and 1970s and declined further in the 1980s and 1990s. They increased in the 2000s.

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A written answer that I received on 9 November 2011 contained figures showing that the number of reported cases of rickets had risen from 183 in 1995-96 to 762 in 2010-11

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Feral_Moon

Please can we stop this back biting. The OP has already requested as much but some of you continue

adindas

We are living in 21st century. More over we are living an a developed country. In this county noone should ever experience essential vitamin deficiency.

Why should you ?????

If you have a busy schedule and eat take away often, you can not control your diet, vitamin intake to your body.

Multi vitamin A-Z could be got at about 3-5p per tablet.
Take that everyday, you will never ever experience any Vitamin and Mineral deficiency ....

No research is ever reporting that take Multi vitamin A-Z one tablet every day will have a side effect on your body ...

Feral_Moon

Some people cannot metabolise vitamins from the food they consume. Some people have medical conditions which can cause vitamin deficiency.

It's not as black and white as just eating a healthy diet. I eat a healthy diet and as such you'd have thought I'd be able to obtain the full range of vitamins and minerals from the food I eat. But, I have a condition which prevents my body from metabolising fat soluble vitamins therefore I need to supplement those.

theoretica

.j.e.j wrote: »

It's only relatively recently that it's become trendy to want to take vitamin D. Has England/the sun changed significantly recently?

One thing that has changed is people's use of suncream - reducing the UV exposure and vitamin D made for time spent in the sun. Also the average amounts of time people spend indoors versus outdoors has changed. So cultural changes rather than physical ones.