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The role of cereals in the aetiology of nutritional rickets: the lesson of the Irish National Nutrition Survey 1943–8

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Iris Robertson ,
J. A. Ford ,
W. B. McIntosh  and
M. G. Dunnigan
Iris Robertson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
J. A. Ford
Affiliation:
Paediatric Unit, Rutherglen Maternity Hospital, Glasgow
W. B. McIntosh
Affiliation:
Departments of Biochemistry and Medicine, Stobhill General Hospital, Glasgow
M. G. Dunnigan
Affiliation:
Departments of Biochemistry and Medicine, Stobhill General Hospital, Glasgow
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Abstract

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1. Review of the evidence of the Irish Nutrition Survey concerning a marked rise in the incidence of rickets in Dublin in 1942 concludes that a rise in the extraction rate of the national flour from 70 to 100% was principally responsible.

2. This rise and subsequent decrease in incidence as the extraction rate of flour was reduced is not explained by changes in the proportion of children protected by vitamin D supplements or by small changes in dietary vitamin D intake.

3. The evidence suggests that nutritional rickets in man cannot be explained on the basis of deficient vitamin D intake alone, whether derived from diet or U.V. radiation.

Type
Papers of direct relevance to Clinical and Human Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 17 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1981

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