Vitamin D deficiency in dead babies shows why official advice is misleading

摘要

I HAVE been involved in campaigning for changes to official advice on various aspects of vitamin D for the best part of a decade. Advice on exposing ourselves to the sun has, thankfully, changed: we can now sunbathe sensibly and recharge our vitamin D without being scared by threats of skin cancer. But a major anomaly in Government advice on infant feeding remains, putting a generation of children at serious risk of chronic disease and death. Pressure is now mounting for the Department of Health to reconsider current advice as a matter of urgency.