Show Daily Health Service By MR 1 MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia Hy- Hy geia gelaj tho the Health Magazine Vitamin D is called the sunshine vitamin and nd a 11 very apt name it is Supplying health-giving health benefits of ot solar rays it has brightened the lives of thousands of youngsters helping th them to build sturdy bodi bodies s. s Long b before rore anything was known about vitamins it w was vas found that cod liver oil was good for children wit with tho the b weakening bone ailment allmen rickets In 1923 scientists learned that one substance in cod liver oil cli was vas responsible At one time time before before there was such a thing as window glass a and before people began herding to together together together to- to gether in sunless slums slums rickets rickets s was not n a common disease But overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding over over- crowding and rind industrialization be began began began be- be gan and in Great Britain rickets became so prevalent it was dubbed the English d disease Failure of growing bones to absorb absorb absorb ab ab- ab- ab c calcium and phosphorus as ns calcium calcium calcium cal cal- phosphate brings about the disease dis dis- dis- dis ease Tho bones bend and bowlegs bo appear appear The Th ribs puff putt out and become become be be- come beaded at the ends A pot potbelly belly is not an unusual symptom Because tho the mucous membranes and other ther tissues tissues' of the body are affected the afflicted child develops develops devel devel- ops ps snuffles Today we we know that vitamin D D. is ism m most st important in m the tho treatment of ot rickets And it may bo be absorbed into the tho b body dy in any anyone one of several ways Irradiation b by the short or invisible invisible invisible in in- visible rays raYJ of the sun c causing the tile body to develop its own vitamin D 1 is one way Ultraviolet rays developed de de- de- de artificially from a carbon arc are or mercury vapor q quartz quarts lamp has a a. similar effect These sumo same rays may may be permitted permit permit- ted to act on a a. chemical substance producing a concentrate concentrate concentrate con con- of t vitamin D which in turn turn- may be e added to milk Food od may be Irradiated and dev develop elop vi vitamin vitamin vitamin vi- vi tamin D out of ot its own ch chemical c content or ot- cow cows may b be fed ted irr irradiated irradiated irra irra- yeast and give milk mUk containing contain contain- ing v vitamin D. D And of c course ur e cod liver U or other fish oils oia rich in hi vitamin vitamin vita vita- min ruin D may be bo taken taleen Remember however ho that in addi tion to this valuable vitamin the growing body should have eno enough gh calcium and phosphorus in the diet to aid In t formation of bo bones ea and te teeth th a proc process ss' ss which incidentally tally r needs ce s proper action n of the tIie para para- glands |