Dimitri > wrote:

>"Steve Pope" > wrote in message

> Not really; before they started adding Vitamin D to milk, all
> sorts of people had rickets because they were too dumb to know
> enough to deliberately consume it.

> "Fortified foods represent the major dietary sources of vitamin D,
> as very few foods naturally contain significant amounts of vitamin D"
> (Wikipedia)

>No sunlight in the UK?
>
>Maybe they kept her in a darkened room or bathed her in sunscreen

UK is at a way nothern latitude so there is a lot less of
the unfiltered sunlight that would produce Vitamin D.

Even most of the population of Canada is low-normal for Vitamin D,
and Glasgow is a higher latitude than that.

Couple that with you live in a project in a grim part of Glasgow,
you may not let your kid outside all that much.

Steve