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Vegan diet a factor in rickets

A vegan couple fed their child oats and rice milk as a staple. The diet included other items. Vitamin D levels were ‘undetectable’. “The infant had fractures scattered throughout her tiny body and her bones were so brittle doctors believed they could have been broken by ‘normal handling‘” Daily Mail (Link) The press reports I … Continue reading Vegan diet a factor in rickets

Poor diet can shrink brains from birth

The researchers found that when CO2 levels were increased to levels predicted to occur under climate change, the higher acidification affected

Kids May Need More Vitamin D

The researchers found that when CO2 levels were increased to levels predicted to occur under climate change, the higher acidification affected

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    About Robert McCarrison

    NUTRITION AND NATIONAL HEALTH

    Sir Robert McCarrison (1878 – 1960) MA, MD, DSc, LLD, FRCP qualified in Medicine at Queen’s College, Belfast in 1900. He joined the Indian Medical Service and was posted as Medical Officer to Indian troops guarding the mountainous Northern Frontiers. His research there on the cause of goiter won widespread recognition and in 1913 he was promoted to do research. In 1928 he became Director of Nutritional Research in India.

    His researches were extensive; they included work on the newly discovered vitamins and on the contrasting disease patterns in the Indian subcontinent.

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