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Rickets, Not Enough Vitamin D for Baby

Posted on August 27, 2008

Vitamin D is powerful. It helps a lot of things like diabetes, artery disease, cancer and good old fashioned death-risk. And now, Roni Caryn Rabin of The New York Times explores how lack-of-it impacts babies and rickets. Here s a bit:Once Aleanie started putting weight on her feet, her mother noticed that her legs were curving in a bow shape below the knees. Doctors diagnosed vitamin D-deficiency rickets, a softening of the bones that develops when children do not get enough vitamin D a crucial ingredient for absorbing calcium and building bone, and the one critical hormone that breast m...

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