3X more kids were vitamin D deficient when entering UK hospitals than 4 years before

Tripling in children suffering Vitamin D deficiency Telegraph

Unfortunately the article does not give the source of the information

• Official figures show that 4,638 children admitted to NHS hospitals in 2013/14 were found to be suffering a Vitamin D deficiency, compared with 1,398 cases in 2009/10.

  Note: UK considers low vitamin D to be < 10 ng/mL

See also VitaminDWiki

• Half of children with chronic illness had low levels of vitamin D – April 2013
  • note - the study on this page is for children who were sick enough to go to the hospital

• Incidence of 22 health problems related to vitamin D have doubled in a decade

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

• Vitamin D reduced so low that Victorian age diseases are returning

• Overview Deficiency of vitamin D which show a big drop in vitamin D levels

• Military and Vitamin D - many studies

  • average level dropped by half in 18 years. Most likely % with deficiency more than doubled.

• UK program to increase Vitamin D (Healthy Start) continues to be a farce - Nov 2014

  Only half as many people had >30 ng of vitamin D 16 years later

2X increase in % of Canada children 6-11 who are deficient

Some of the reasons why

The huge decline in vitamin D levels make a farse out of vitamin D studies which span 10 to 20 years

The studies almost always assume that the vtiamin D levels are a constant in the population.

When, in reality, the vitamin D levels are constantly falling.