Vitamin D: The sunshine vitamin for bone strength and resilience 

A lack of Vitamin D can result rickets, causing soft or weakened bones as well as fractures, bone and muscle pain, and body deformities
Vitamin D: The sunshine vitamin for bone strength and resilience 

Sunlight is the most important source of vitamin D in the world

Rickets is a bone disease that affects infants and young children where the bones fail to develop properly due to a lack of vitamin D. This can result in soft and weakened bones, fractures, bone and muscle pain and body deformities.

While more commonly associated with poverty and malnutrition in developing countries, it can also affect people from all walks of life.

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