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>  Regular cows' milk was never fortified here and the Asian
>immigrants who were getting rickets in the 1970s tended to feed
>their babies with it, never went out in sunlight (becasue of culture
>and some say fear of racism) and lived in the dark gloomy slum
>housing that the British had vacated to move to airy new towns and
>leafy suburbs.


Very interesting, Jan.

In fact, in the UK the recent and (IMHO) not very good research on
rickets has focussed almost solely on small-scale (with numbers in
single figures) observational and case studies of *toddlers*  (not
babies) in Asian communities (and another reminder that 'Asian
immigrants'  here means people from the Indian sub-continent, not
South East Asians).

It's on these thin grounds that our govt policy is to recommend Vit D
supplementation for all babies receiving breastmilk from the age of 6
mths.

There is no public health education to encourage all parents to take
their babies outside on most days.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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