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Was this not the reason why schools used to give children a small bottle of milk daily a good many years ago?
This may be another reason why it has reared it's ugly head again ,that and the depletion of the protective ozone layer .
The sun in this country now ,is as fierce as it was in the middle east forty years ago and it won't get any better.Fred. :-(

HI Det,
I believe there was.
People get confused between a natural tan and sunburn.
It's the burning that causes problems, not the tan.
Grandson wears sun screen, but not block.
I had fun with my two, having to put different screens on each of them!!

If nothing was put on them (usually when they stayed with their dad - who can burn at the slightest inkling of a sun ray) one would come back nut brown - the other lobster red!!

Must pull you up on your comment about depletion of vitamin D.
I am the youngest of 4 - and the darkest in every way.
My eldest brother has/had blonde hair & blue eyes, and very fair skin.
I have/had jet black hair, brown eyes and very dark skin.
My mother (Hampshire/Suffolk ancestry) had/has fair skin, brown hair and brown eyes.
My Cornish father had jet black hair , blue eyes and dark skin.
I'm the youngest, but have never had to use a sunscreen - I just don't burn.
My 3 elder siblings (all with blue eyes) - but younger brother has/had black hair - do!

I am so much darker than my siblings, that one of my daughters asked if I had a different father!! I asked my mum, who insisted we all had the same father :-D

You may be right maggie.

In the depths of memory, wasn't there something about Ricketts and Sunblock in Australia about 10 years ago?

Too much sun block!!!
It has been reported in middle class families who smother their children in sun block!
I also remember, in the '80's when children of middle class families suffered from malnutrition, as parents routinely fed their children only unsaturated fats and semi-skimmed milk!!!

Bleedy ridiculous.

Someone 'tutted' at my daughter as my grandson has a tan!! LOL
He had a tan - not a BURN!!!
They failed to notice that his mum isn't exactly fair skinned!!

maggie - with one fair skinned daughter (takes after her dad) and one olive skinned daughter- that'll be taking after me- 100% English!! LOL

maggie

Chris there have also been reports of rickets in Scotland and the South Coast of England. Said to be due to lack of sunshine, vitamin D, and other minerals. Although associated with poverty, it is appearing in middle class families.
I remember several cases where I was brought up in the 1940s.

Tec.

Quite shocking in a European developed country, but they seem to suggest it is often, but not exclusively, found in communities where the ladies are covered almost completely when they go outside.

**"Every pregnancy, you use up your vitamin D stores and if you're not making enough to replenish them, you gradually get more and more depleted.

By your third or fourth child, that child is born already without enough vitamin D."***

Hopefully, better dietary information given and the use of vitamin supplements can be encouraged.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14256950

rickets apparently has reappeared in Wales - think it was Cardiff.