Florence Nightingale

A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.

English Activist

Mark Hyman

Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries.

American Author

Roger Daltrey

I think Pete did have a hard time as a kid with his appearance. But don't all kids have a hard time? God, I had a hard time, too. I was little with bow legs and rickets. I used to get picked on like everybody used to get picked on.

English Musician

Rickets is specific to children; adults get osteomalacia, which is similar but different.

Childhood Disease

Rickets is caused by certain deficiencies, most commonly a lack of vitamin D or calcium.

Cause and Effect

Rickets often shows visible signs like bowed legs or thickened wrists and ankles.

Visible Symptoms

While rickets affects bones, it can also lead to dental issues and impaired growth.

Not Just Bones

Rickets can be a sign of poverty or lack of access to nutritious food and healthcare.

Cultural Significance

Rickets is not just about malnutrition; genetic forms exist, unrelated to diet or sun.

Misconceptions

Rickets can affect a child's motor skills, so it's not only a physical but also a developmental issue.

Developmental Impacts

Treatment of rickets includes vitamin D and calcium supplementation, and in severe cases, surgery.

Treatment Options

 What are some of kind of the the psychological and physical effects that can happen to a monkey like a marmoset. So they can suffer in many different ways, both physically and psychologically. Physical conditions that we see coming through. Monkeys that are often suffering from metabolic bone disease, which is like a rickets.

Should Primates be Kept...

 But certainly in people older than my wife, this appears to be a more marked effect. And the other thing I should mention was there was no change in vitamin D. This is separate from vitamin D. So vitamin D is good for you -- it stops rickets, it prevents calcium metabolism, important stuff.

Richard Weller: Could...

 an ingredient that strengthens bones and lets us absorb vital minerals, like calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphate, and zinc. Without it, humans experience serious fatigue and weakened bones that can cause a condition known as rickets.