Keep Them Inside!
A study in JAMA Pediatrics, attempting to prove that all sunshine is evil, used an intervention consisting of text-message reminders, read-along books, and swim shirts to achieve significant improvements in sun protection behaviors in children, compared with information about sun protection alone. In a stunning coincidence, the number of children with rickets has found to be soaring over the last ten years.
Most studies are showing that problems associated with low D levels are not fixed with artificial D. Common sense tells us that we have been on this planet for a long time and did not stay underground like mole people. What am I missing here? Could we be wrong on this? We were so right about low fat diets, how could be we wrong about the sun?
Idiots.
I got burned so bad when I was 9 I started wearing swim shirts on my own after that.
Started bathing in sunscreen when PABA first came out. Some folks burn easily and they likely
are best served by doing protection. I haven’t heard about a Rickets epidemic from my Peds
colleagues but that doesn’t mean anything. I find this interesting.
95% of patients I test are low in Vit D. Studies are showing that replacing orally doesn’t help that much.
Guastavinos 5th rule of medicine: “Work with what the body wants to do, not against it”