Vitamin D Deficiency and Multiple Sclerosis (MS): Who Pays?
In "The Lancet: Neurology" you'll find "Vitamin D and Multiple Sclerosis" as well as "Vitamin D: Hope on the Horizon for MS Prevention?" Could it be that the old mocked wisdom of "a healthy dose of sunshine" wasn't so silly after all? Could it be that the health panic precipitated by activists who demanded everyone stay out of the sun actually caused horrific and needless suffering? Could be.
I just got back from a vacation in Destin, Florida. While there I learned that there are people who cover every exposed surface of their kids with zinc oxide before letting them out in the sun. These parents think they're doing the right thing. Their kids seemed about as happy as I'd have been sent out into the world in a powder blue leisure suit. But while powder blue leisure suits don't cause rickets and MS, vitamin D deficiency does. When disease strikes will there be a viable cause of action against the scaremongers who caused it? It's an interesting question.
