Rickets in UK increased 4X in a decade

Marks and Spencer adds Vitamin D to bread as cases of childhood rickets quadruples Mirror

• 190 ==> 833

• 2 slices of M&S; bread will soon contain 15% of recommended minimum (60 IU)

See also Vitamin D Life

• Overview of Rickets and Vitamin D

• Preterm infants, kidney, rickets and vitamin D intake: is it time for rewriting the history – Aug 2014

• Post-mortem analysis of children in London Hospital – only 1 child had adequate level of vitamin D – July 2014

• Perhaps half of Russian children have rickets, 500 IU vitamin D was not enough – June 2013

• 744 IU vitamin D needed by Northern white teens to prevent Rickets – Jan 2011

  • Probably more if darker skinned
• Rickets in England – huge recent increase – Feb 2014 has the following chart
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