"Call for D-action to stop pandemic: Vitamin D deficiency leave some children at high risk that may lead to rickets, cancer and more." ~ Cynthia G. Creel 6-20-2013

"Call for D-action to stop pandemic:

 Vitamin D deficiency leave some 

children at high risk

that may lead to

 rickets, cancer and more."

~ Cynthia G. Creel

6-20-2013

My Story:

I looked at the blood work that I had asked their doctor to run on my children and both were vitamin D deficient. My only thought was how long had they been this way. What damage was done and would everything return to where it was suppose to be in the near future. Most of their childhood had already passed, I sat and wondered how things might have been very different if just this simple blood test had been part of their annual check up. It wasn’t money that prevented the discovery it was the lack of knowledge from the doctors just to offer or do it and/or for me to ask for it. Nothing to do about it except move forward better prepared in life. Luckily I have seen grand improvements with full participation in college and doing excellent. I feel lucky only time was lost, but if I had to do it over there would be no vitamin D deficiency in my life or that of my children’s. I often wonder when parents complain about their kids if they have been checked for vitamin D levels. 

Some children at high risk for low levels of vitamin D:

One study (1) shows  around a 75% vitamin D insufficiency status in some children who are immigrants or  refugees  new to Canada. The author concludes “Newcomer immigrant and refugee children are at a high risk of vitamin D deficiency and inadequacy, which may have serious negative consequences for their health.”

A second study (2) of a  total of 2325 Canadian  pediatricians surveyed each month over about a two year period of time with 140 confirmed cases of vitamin D deficiency rickets (2.9 cases per 100.000) 

Vitamin D deficiency rickets is continuing to be discovered in Canada, more often especially among infants who are breast-fed without vitamin D supplementation or darker completion. However if the child was formula fed there was a slight chance they too could be vitamin D deficient. 


Pandemic deficiency of vitamin D:

Boston University School of Medicine study (3) states there is a pandemic of vitamin D deficiency. With few food that naturally contain vitamin D, inadequately fortified vitamin D foods and lack of sun exposure that possibly cause predict fractures in adults. The vitamin D deficiency may also put a person at risk of common cancers, autoimmune diseases, hypertension, and infectious diseases.

Final words:

Rickets were not even thought of as a problem for children in the Untied States. However my children did show slight signs when they were young that went unnoticed and untested by their doctor.  One of my adult friends was just recently diagnosed with rickets. It is clear the only way to know if there might be a problem is to take a blood test to determine the levels of vitamin D


Finding out if a child is deficient and correcting that deficiency may save that child from a life time of struggles dealing with the long term effects of a deficiency. I will always wonder how life might have been different for my family if we had always maintained sufficient vitamin D levels. There is not way of knowing, just keeping it “good to go” for the future. 


Be more proactive we can all become just a little bit better and the more likely the negative results in life can be avoided. Stand up tall with an upright posture and be proactive. 

The solution  helps to keep moving the best direction is to step onto the path of True Health.  Discover a new world. Help yourself, help the world, step on to the Path of True Health and vote with your dollars  company you want to support to create a world you will love to live in. I do, and I like the world I am helping to create. 
Together we can create a better life for all to remember over their entire lifetime  Together we can protect what we have so we don’t need to live in a world that is second rate.

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Source:

(1) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23673607
(2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17600035
(3)http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18400738