On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:12:11 -0500, George Shirley
> wrote:

>Dimitri wrote:
>>
>> "Steve Pope" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Dimitri > wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
>>>
>>>>> Doctors are under pressure to report her parents
>>>>> to the police.
>>>
>>>> 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
>>
>> No sunlight in the UK?
>>
>> Maybe they kept her in a darkened room or bathed her in sunscreen
>>
>>
>> http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/vitamind.asp
>>
>>
>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."

Having spent 90 days in the U.K. (at the request of the USAF), I can
safely say I could count on the fingers of one hand the days I could
see my shadow distinctly. Most days were "high overcast". The air
was crystal clear, but the sky was a uniform light gray. Some days
the fog was so thick you literally could not see more than ten feet
ahead of yourself.

As a side note, the countryside is beautiful and the people are
gracious and kind to wandering yanks.

Ron Kelley