Nothing is ever easy, is it? One of the featured papers this month deals with vitamin D - the sunshine vitamin which prevents rickets. Getting it from the sun isn't all that easy, with the dermatologist shaking a forefinger at those who don't stay out of the sun to avoid skin cancer. So the government decreed - years ago - that Vitamin D be used to fortify milk - good idea?-But the biggest single use of milk is on cereal, and there is a lot of criticism of children's cereals because of sugar. So how should the industry balance the scale between RTE cereals and lack of vitamin D? Are kids better off with rickets or the chubbies?
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