{"id":163,"date":"2011-02-07T09:48:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T08:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc-archimedes\/?p=163"},"modified":"2011-02-07T09:48:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T08:48:40","slug":"why-the-obsession-with-vitamin-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2011\/02\/07\/why-the-obsession-with-vitamin-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the obsession with Vitamin D?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Lovely Sun\" src=\"http:\/\/www.healthproductsguru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Vitamin-D_Sun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>So, in the dark and cold climes of an early Northern Spring, Archi has been assailed by questions of vitamin D. There are, it is claimed, near-miraculous things from Vitamin D sufficiency &#8211; less cancer, less heart disease, less rickets. Well, I&#8217;ll buy the last one, but the others? And does any child <strong>really<\/strong> need supplements, or just those in poverty or the middle classes? (For two reasons; the first for nutritional health, the second for social acceptability.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Well, there are teams addressing this for neonates and people with epilepsy, but don&#8217;t hold back with your own opinions on this 21st century wondercule.<em><\/em><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, in the dark and cold climes of an early Northern Spring, Archi has been assailed by questions of vitamin D. There are, it is claimed, near-miraculous things from Vitamin D sufficiency &#8211; less cancer, less heart disease, less rickets. Well, I&#8217;ll buy the last one, but the others? And does any child really need [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2011\/02\/07\/why-the-obsession-with-vitamin-d\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,1554,96,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epilepsy","category-neonates","category-side-effects","category-therapy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}