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Rickets

Although it is still widely regarded as a dietary-deficiency disease resulting from a lack of "vitamin D," it results in fact from a lack of sunlight. In smoky cities it was the first air-pollution disease

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 223 Issue 6This article was originally published with the title “Rickets” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 223 No. 6 (), p. 76
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1270-76