Rickets in UK increased 4X in a decade - May 2015

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)

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See also VitaminDWiki

• 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