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Article: Missing Out On Sunlight, Dietary Calcium, Vitamin D, Some North American Infants Getting Rickets.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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Remember scurvy? pellagra? beriberi? Those once-notorious dietary deficiency diseases are rare now in industrialized parts of the world. But how about rickets? That crippling bone disorder of small children seems to have vanished as well.
In 1907, every other child admitted to Paris hospitals between 6 months and 3 years of age suffered from rickets. Also in 1907, that same statistic applied to New York City hospitals. Ironically, people in both countries referred to rickets as "the English disease." Elsewhere, rickets was known as ...