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03/27/2017 / By Earl Garcia

Explosion in rickets, gout and scarlet fever caused by processed junk food and inflationary monetary policy

Poor diet, financial insecurity, and falling standards of living are factors that contribute to the rising incidence of Victorian-era diseases — such as gout, rickets, scarlet fever, and syphilis — in modern-day Great Britain. The U.K. Faculty of Public Health (FPH) stressed that poor wage growth and persistent inflation has greatly affected nutrition intake among poorer […]

07/21/2016 / By JD Heyes

Vitamin D deficiency symptoms: The top warning signs

Just how important is vitamin D? It’s been well-known since the 1930s, when doctors first understood the link between vitamin D deficiency and the skeletal disease known as rickets, which is the softening of bones and teeth. Even if a person’s diet has sufficient levels of calcium, without enough vitamin D to properly control calcium and […]

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