Rickets, largely conquered in the UK in the 1950s by improvements in diet and regular vitamin D supplements, threatens our children once again. 20% of children included in a study of 2,700 from all sections of society were deficient in vitamin D, which is essential for strong, healthy bones.

The researchers highlighted two possible causes:

• children's growing tendency to stay inside and play on the computer (which ties in with the increase in lack of child fitness) and
• parents over-reacting to the current barrage of warnings linking the sun to skin cancer and covering their children head-to-toe in high factor sunblock

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