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Mon Nov 3

• Resurrection of vitamin D deficiency and rickets
• eMedicine - Rickets : Article by Frank R Greer

Fri Oct 24

• Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency May Lurk in Exclusively Breastfed Babies. Breast-feeding is excellent and may need supplementatio n with vitamin D drops.: Physicians have known for more than a century that exclusive breast-feeding may be associated with vitamin D deficiency and rickets, and that the condition is easily prevented and treated with inexpensive vitamin drops or cod liver oil. But doctors are reluctant to say anything that might discourage breast-feeding . Now some researchers are also linking vitamin D deficiency with other chronic diseases like diabetes, autoimmune disorders and even cancer, and there have been calls to include blood tests of vitamin D levels in routine checkups.

Sat Aug 30

• Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency May Lurk in Breastfed Babies - NYTimes.com

Wed Aug 27

• Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency May Lurk in Breastfed Babies - NYTimes.com: Physicians have known for more than a century that exclusive breast-feeding may be associated with vitamin D deficiency and rickets, and that the condition is easily prevented and treated with inexpensive vitamin drops or cod liver oil. But doctors are reluctant to say anything that might discourage breast-feeding . Now some researchers are also linking vitamin D deficiency with other chronic diseases like diabetes, autoimmune disorders and even cancer, and there have been calls to include blood tests of vitamin D levels in routine checkups.
• Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency May Lurk in Breastfed Babies - NYTimes.com: Interesting. A form of onset rickets, not genetic.

Tue Aug 26

• Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency May Lurk in Breastfed Babies: Physicians have known for more than a century that exclusive breast-feeding may be associated with vitamin D deficiency and rickets ... But doctors are reluctant to say anything that might discourage breast-feeding .

Thu Jun 12

• Shock as vegan diet girl, 12, diagnosed with rickets - The Daily Record: "There are concerns that the child's parents put their own beliefs before the girl's welfare." This is absolutely sick.

Mon Jun 2

• What is Rickets?: Rickets, a disease that affects the developing skeletal system of children and other young animals, is the result of the body's inability to absorb calcium and phosphate.
• Rickets Introduction - Health encyclopaedia - NHS Direct: Rickets is a disorder that affects children, causing poor development of the bones in the skeleton.

Tue Apr 29

• Cell Defenses and the Sunshine Vitamin: Scientific American: Outstandingly interesting article on vitamin D

Sun Apr 27

• Historical overview of rickets, osteomalacia, and ...[Rev Rhum Engl Ed. 1995] - PubMed Result: looks relevant but no abstract
• SOLAR ultraviolet radiation and vitamin D: a histo...[Am J Public Health. 2007] - PubMed Result: interesting historical overview of rickets, uv light and vitamin D in USA

Tue Apr 22

• Rickets: A medical time bomb - 04/22/2008 - MiamiHerald.co m

Tue Apr 15

• Rickets on the rise as breast-feeding and limiting sun exposure become more prevalent - Cleveland Lifestyles ? Living, Food, Health & Fitness News from The Plain Dealer

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