Little Ice Age cooling in Europe may have raised the risk of rickets
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Archaeological evidence of seasonal vitamin D deficiency discovered
Rickets ran rife in children following the Industrial Revolution, but new research has found factory work and polluted cities aren't entirely to blame for the period's vitamin D deficiencies.
Soot air, poverty and little time outdoors are considered to be important reasons for rachitis during industrialization. However, volcanic eruptions and phases of low solar activity could also have increased the vitamin D deficiency, as suggested by old teeth and burial registers from northern England. The connection remains a hypothesis, because climate events and signs of illness cannot be attributed to individual people. Durham (England). Rac…
England is not known for its weather. But only a few centuries ago, the conditions caused by climate change were perhaps so bad that they endangered children's health. Calcium mineralization in the teeth and skeletons of people living in rural areas of northern England suggests [...]
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