Got milk?
Religious clothes? Maybe it’s first cousin marriage that’s giving these kids rickets.
A product of the “milk and sunshine will kill you” propaganda of the last couple of decades.
Everybody should've known, in spite of the propaganda, that the body needs real Vitamin D from sunshine to activate calcium and keep bones from deteriorating.
The other situation is those who popped Lipotor for years. It can cause terrible problems with muscles and joints.
I'm one of the minority of people who suspects that the medical and pharmaceutical guidance we get causes more harm than good.
Parents, particularly young parents force their kids to wear wide-brimmed hats and then plaster the kid with SPF-50 from head to toe whenever they even set their little toe out the door.
Sunshine is good and completely healthy! Yes, everything in moderation, but I am always amazed at the sheer number of people who read something somewhere and they hold to it as gospel truth and NEVER deviate from it. They simply believe it. Never questions it, and heaven forbid, they NEVER use their God-given common sense. The brain just gets switched off — permenantly.
Scary.
For my whole life I though they added Vitamin D to milk. All they do is expose to milk to UV and the UV converts the cholesterol to Vitamin D.
Immigrants had nothing to do with this one?
The article dances around it but the core of the problem is dark-skinned people whose skin doesn't absorb enough sunlight in the gloomy Northern clime to which they have moved and Muslims, who make their women cover up, thus not getting enough sun.
Oh, and helicopter parents who needlessly slather their kids with sunblock whenever they go outdoors. In the Mediterranean, sure, but in Britain that maybe gets 60 days of sun a year?
While I can see the darker folks moving north having an impact, I wonder how much the maunder minimum impacted the occurrence of rickets in victorian/pre-victorian England?
Maybe the burka is the reason women in Saudi Arabia are thought not smart enough to be able to drive by the religious rulers there. Not enough vitamin D.
The vague “religious garments” brings various silly pictures to my mind....wish I could photoshop.
When I was a kid in the 60’s and 70’s sunscreen as for the beach. Playing outside was never a sunscreen time. I rarely see kids outside anymore. We were always outside as kids.