I posted the video regarding rickets a little earlier today in case there are actually people out there who still have never heard of rickets. I am sad, and sickened, that after 30 + years since I became a Registered Nurse (I am now retired if you recall) this is still a problem being researched and making news headlines.
When I entered nursing in 1982 we were taught about this nutritional condition. At that time it seemed to be a problem from history and yet still current in countries where access to good food, any food, was an ongoing problem. In North American countries who are supposedly well off, with advanced medicine and health care, technology, and plenty of room to grow food, the ability to import fresh fruits you would think this should not be a current problem. How sad to hear that in 2015 many children suffer from rickets.
Neither Canada nor the United States are free from nutritional illnesses like rickets because there is still too much REAL poverty in our countries. For all our advances in health and technology will still can not seem to do the most simplest thing...caring and feeding our children and each other.
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