Dimitri wrote:
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> "Steve Pope" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Dimitri > wrote:
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>>> "Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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>>>> Doctors are under pressure to report her parents
>>>> to the police.
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>>> Unbelievable.
>>
>> Not really; before they started adding Vitamin D to milk, all
>> sorts of people had rickets because they were too dumb to know
>> enough to deliberately consume it.
>>
>> "Fortified foods represent the major dietary sources of vitamin D,
>> as very few foods naturally contain significant amounts of vitamin D"
>> (Wikipedia)
>>
>> Couple this with the fact that while the UK has lots of vegetarians,
>> nearly all of them are ovo-lactoids, so there's not a general
>> culture among vegetarians there of worrying about vitamin D.
>>
>> Steve
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> No sunlight in the UK?
>
> Maybe they kept her in a darkened room or bathed her in sunscreen
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> http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/vitamind.asp
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Not really a lot of sunshine in the UK. "A good day in the UK is like
looking up a chimney, a bad day is like looking down a chimney."

Exerpted from a book I used to have that, I think, was titled, "1000
jokes about Great Britain."