Rickets (Vitamin D Deficiency) Cases Rising

re: Rickets (Vitamin D Deficiency) Cases Rising

Starry health — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:05:00 GMT

My son's allergist (conventional type) said that vitamin D has nothing to do with rickets because the children in India receive plenty of sunlight and they are experiencing many cases of rickets. She said she thought that it had more to do with the fact that most of those families are vegetarian. If anyone knows about this issue and could forward appropriate links, I would be much obliged.

re: Rickets (Vitamin D Deficiency) Cases Rising

Komic Kaze — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:08:56 GMT

The reason that most poor people are fat is because they cannot afford to be thin. Ramen Noodles will keep a family afloat for a month, and cost very little. Healthy food costs a little more, so most times it is out of their price range. I work in a grocery store and I see it all the time. Fat, emaciated people on food stamps buying more frozen, packaged, processed food. I want to say something, I really do, but I know most of them could not afford to eat healthy enough. And the crap they eat tastes better than any vegetable they can find. Most of them don't even think about it. They don't spend time reading ingredient lists to avoid trans fats and MSG. They are more concerned with survival than long-term health. Until this paradigm shifts, people will continue to suffer from completely preventable diseases.

re: Rickets (Vitamin D Deficiency) Cases Rising

Hathorhetep — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:50:47 GMT

One answer is to have the mothers take the vitamins and nutritional supplements, so that it is digested and processed through the mom and her breast milk, "the way that nature intended it." The better answer is to educate them on preparing and eating a proper diet during pregnancy and nursing.

My son is grown now, but we lived in the inner city, most of our neighbors were welfare families, immigrants who spoke little English, and low income blue collar families, sometimes employed and other times not. Too many times I saw young moms who live in a TV shaped cultural landscape, wanting to buy the advertised processed 'foods' because TV sold them. I.E.: A mom who thought that a fried egg with white toast and potato chips was a good breakfast, or a pizza with veggies was a 'complete' meal, so additional vegetables would be excessive at a meal. These young women all blame having babies on becoming fat or obese, rather than being conscious or aware of how the TV recommended foods that they buy and eat constantly have changed their bodies. They wonder why they are hungry all the time, not accepting the possibility that they are starving.

They can't believe it because society and media condone these foods, sell them, and therefore, they are acceptable. Television and the incessant ads in media stimulate ideas about 'fun' foods and are relentless in the message: "You've got to have it." Restaurant chains spread across the country based on dessert menus; cake and ice cream have become de rigeur as weekly or even daily treats. Many kids take a lunch to school that is composed of an apple candy, juice box, chips, and a Lunchable©. It is sad when that is typical of so many school lunches, and the cafeteria food menus. These young moms and dads need to know that it is easy to wash, prepare, and cook wholesome foods - often people think they are saving time by using packaged or convenience foods, but it takes the same amount of time to fix something fresh.