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Article: Study shows children lack Vitamin D.
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- Newsday (Melville, NY)
- Article date:
- July 10, 2007
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Byline: Christina Hernandez
Jul. 10--More than half of otherwise healthy children in a study had low blood levels of Vitamin D and some were so deficient that they could develop serious health problems in later life, including rickets, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that 55 percent of the 382 study participants, ages 6 to 21, had inadequate levels of Vitamin D in their blood. That number rose to 68 percent during winter months.
Children spend less time outside and drink less milk as they age, so their levels of Vitamin D have declined, said Babette Zemel, director of the ...