Dietary Calcium Deficiency And Rickets By John M. Pettifor , Philip R. Fischer , Tom D. Thacher , Josiane Arnaud, Craig A. Meissner

In the March 2008 issue of the Journal, Teotia and Teotia reviewed their extensive experience of nutritional bone disease in India gained through over 40 yr of research in the field. In one section, they discuss the role of dietary calcium deficiency in the pathogenesis of rickets in children and state categorically that “our observations provide scientific proof of evidence that calcium deficiency alone does not produce rickets” and then go on to suggest that the reports of dietary calcium deficiency are in fact “the syndromes of calcium deficiency and fluoride interactions”. We wish to refute their arguments. In South Africa, where the first cases of rickets caused by low dietary calcium intakes were described in otherwise healthy children , water fluoride was measured from a number of boreholes and surface water in the community of Driefontein from which the children came and all had levels ranging from 0.05- 0.1 ppm3.

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