On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:27:07 -0000, Andy Champ
wrote:

On 12/12/2011 17:17, Roger Mills wrote:
On 12/12/2011 16:36, soup wrote:
On 11/12/2011 20:22, dennis@home wrote:

It used to be quite common.


So did Rickets.

. . which is apparently coming back because people are keeping their
kids out of the sun, to avoid skin cancer!

There are also problems with certain minorities who tend to cover
themselves completely and have built-in tans.

BTW Vitamin D deficiency appears to be linked with a number of other
diseases, such as MS, and without such a severe deficiency.

And when it is associated, it if often unclear whether the disease has
contributed to the low D level, the low D to the disease, they are simply
associated, or what...

Should anyone wish to find out what their D level is, this is possibly the
cheapest decent test in the country:

http://www.vitamindtest.org.uk/

--
Rod