WASHINGTON - Too little milk, sunshine and exercise: It is an anti-bone trifecta. And for some children, shockingly, it is leading to rickets, the soft-bone scourge of the 19th century.
But cases of full-blown rickets are just the red flag: Bone specialists say possibly millions of seemingly healthy children in the U.S. are not building as much strong bone as they should — a gap that may leave them more vulnerable to bone-cracking osteoporosis later in life than their grandparents are.
"This potentially is a time-bomb," says Dr. Laura Tosi, bone health chief at Children's National Medical Center in Washington. Click here for the whole story. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21979043 Thank you Steve Klein for this story.
But cases of full-blown rickets are just the red flag: Bone specialists say possibly millions of seemingly healthy children in the U.S. are not building as much strong bone as they should — a gap that may leave them more vulnerable to bone-cracking osteoporosis later in life than their grandparents are.
"This potentially is a time-bomb," says Dr. Laura Tosi, bone health chief at Children's National Medical Center in Washington. Click here for the whole story. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21979043 Thank you Steve Klein for this story.
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