Video games blamed for rickets
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Fair point. Games make me go out less. Sunlight has vitamin D. Lack of vitamin D causes rickets. Fortunately there's cod liver oil.
Why do you have a problem with this decent article?jamez525 said:
In the metro, a no-cost newspaper on busses in the uk, a guy said that it was wrong to blame the matter on games. cant remember who but it was said, it also said that vitamin D should be put into milk to help combat rickets.
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It couldn't be, y'know, a lack of vitamin D (eggs and fish) in the diet, could it? Sunlight isn't the only way to get it.
This is true, but the comparitive amount of VitD in food is so miniscule compared to what we get/ need from the sun that it is a common joke amongst med students that when a new game comes out, that they and their mates will be getting rickets soon.DragonsAteMyMarbles said:
Lack of sunlight has also been linkd to SAD. See this wiki [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder]. Apparently, there is a town is Austria where they get only a couple of hours of natural light a day in highest summer as the are at a foot of a mountain and tey have a monster suicide rate.
Sunlight makes a chemical change in your skin so that the Vitamin D that's there changes to a type that you can use.Carnagath said: