Fear Mongering About Sun Causes Up to 40% of UK Children to Suffer from Rickets

We now have a generation of children who suffer from chronic health conditions that were almost unknown in childhood a generation ago: cancer, autism, asthma, allergies, diabetes, obesity, and now rickets.

by Heidi Stevenson

7 February 2011

As a direct result of misinformation pushed by modern medicine, an epidemic of deforming rickets is now epidemic in the UK. The scourge that was should be gone has returned, and with a vengeance. As many as 40 percent of all children in the UK may be suffering from the disease.

Around 1900, the little girl pictured to the right suffered permanent deformation of her legs because of a lack of nutrition. Today's children are at risk simply because their parents have been terrified—often by their doctors—into keeping their children inside, away from one of the most important health factors, sunlight, and slathering them with toxic lotions in the mistaken belief that the sun's rays are inherently harmful.

Of course, the child from a century ago was in worse condition than most today—but the problem is now far more widespread. Severe malnutrition was nowhere near as prevalent as severe lack of sunshine is today. However, weak bones, bowed legs, knock knees, and other bones deformities, along with the associated chronic pain, is now becoming commonplace in GP's offices in the UK. Once this damage has occurred, it's permanent—at least, within the system of modern medicine.

We now have a generation of children who suffer from chronic health conditions that were almost unknown in childhood a generation ago: cancer, autism, asthma, allergies, diabetes, obesity, and now rickets.

Children from all walks of life are affected. Rickets is no respecter of class when the cause is mass misinformation from the allopathic medical system. Clearly, the addition of a form of Vitamin D that's being added to milk is not doing the job, in spite of modern medicine's assurances that it would.

The authors of a study published in the British Medical Journal place the blame on parents, of course. Professor Simon Pearce told The Guardian:

Some people are taking the safe sun message too far. It's good to have 20 to 30 minutes of exposure to the sun two to three times a week, after which you can put on a hat or sunscreen.

Vitamin D levels in parts of the population are precarious. The average worker nowadays is in a call centre, not out in the field. People tend to stay at home rather than going outside to kick a ball around. They stay at home on computer games.

Of course, parents have been told that the sun is harmful. Period. They're generally not told of its benefits, and are often told that drinking D-fortified milk will provide all the Vitamin D required.

The paper's conclusion, though, is particularly disconcerting. It states:

Rickets and osteomalacia should be treated with high strength calciferol (ergocalciferol or colecalciferol) for 8-12 weeks, followed by regular vitamin D supplements.

To begin with, the paper is most concerned with treating an existing condition, rather than prevention. Worse, though, is that the authors have again demonstrated how flawed modern medicine's understanding of health can be with the implication that ergocalciferol (Vitamin D2) is equivalent to cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3). In fact, D2 is not what the body makes from sun exposure. Made by radiating fungus, D2 is never found naturally in the body. Vitamin D3 is what's needed.

Prescription Vitamin D is usually not D3, the real thing. It's D2, the kind your body shouldn't have—and which shouldn't even be called a vitamin. D2 is not absorbed well and doesn't last nearly as long in the body. Because it is not naturally occurring and is not metabolized in the same manner as the real vitamin, D3, it is more properly called a drug.

In spite of this track record, the medical system is on the verge of receiving immensely increased powers over our health. As of the end of April this year, the EU will fully implement restrictions on our access to vitamins, supplements, and herbs. The individual who wishes to supplement Vitamin D to a degree that's worthwhile will need to see a physician for a prescription.

The people of the UK and EU are losing their access to natural products for health just as some of the incredibly mistaken notions of modern medicine are being shown to have horrific health effects in the general population. As we learn how badly we've been misinformed, our ability to manage our own health is being taken from us. To repair the damage, we're being forced into the hands of the very people whose advice is producing rickets in children, more cancer in children with the unnecessary use of x-rays, and fluorine-laced pharmaceuticals.

Our ability to manage our own health is being stolen from us and handed over to the very people who have been misleading us into massive amounts of chronic disease. The madness needs to stop.

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