Discover how just 20 minutes of daily sun exposure can boost your health beyond Vitamin D, enhancing cardiovascular health, ...

A recent study, published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, examined the skeletal remains of a child who lived ...

While all vitamins play a role in your child’s health Vitamin D is a key player in ensuring strong bones a healthy immune ...

Jan. 31, 2024 — Rickets ran rife in children following the Industrial Revolution, but new research has found factory work and polluted cities aren't entirely to blame for the period's vitamin D ...

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the primary cause of rickets is an acutedeficiency of vitamin D, which plays a crucial role in calcium and phosphorus absorption. Some of the ...

Cow's milk, breakfast cereals, and margarine were first fortified with vitamin D in the 1930s to reduce the risk of rickets (a bone disease that may occur due to a vitamin D deficiency). Vitamin D is ...

Rickets softens the bones and can cause deformities ... But with improved diet and the provision of vitamin D supplements it was all but wiped out in Britain during the 1950s and cases have ...

How much vitamin D is enough? Over the past decade, rickets has re-emerged as a noticeable public health issue in some areas (Lanham-New et al, 2010) and many physicians have been ordering lab ...

Risks of getting too little: One in six adults in the UK have low levels of vitamin D. Severe deficiency causes rickets and in some adults results in osteomalacia – a condition characterised by ...