Vitamin D – could it stop 'modern’ diseases?

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An award-winning writer and scientist believes a deficiency of Vitamin D in pregnant women is behind the increase in conditions such as MS, diabetes, schizophrenia and asthma

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/10686624/Vitamin-D-could-it-stop-modern-diseases.html

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It conveniently overlooks that vitamin D deficiency used to be so common that rickets was prevalent.Why didn't the modern (sic) diseases occur then?

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It conveniently overlooks that vitamin D deficiency used to be so common that rickets was prevalent.Why didn't the modern (sic) diseases occur then?

 

Did it?

 

 

A deficiency in this crucial vitamin, thanks to our increasingly indoor lifestyles, is already blamed for the reappearance of rickets, the painful and deforming bone disease in children, in the UK. But gradually, evidence is emerging that links low vitamin D levels to a rise in a whole host of “modern†diseases, some of which were virtually unheard of in the pre-industrial era.

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This is where the margarine comes in handy. Stay out of the sun - it'll kill you.

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Rickets used to be very common in India due to women's lack of exposure to the sun — vitamin D deficiency. At the same time type 2 diabetes in India was uncommon. Nowadays In India, rickets still occurs (nutrition has improved leading to an increase in Vit D intake), but type 2 diabetes is rampant due to increasing obesity and sedentary lifestyles.

Edited March 12, 2014 by picog