"Finish your milk, or you can't go outside and play."
I used to think that was just an empty threat when my mom told me that when I was a kid. But now, thanks to another study (yay!), I know she was more sadistic than I thought. By denying me milk and exercise, she could have given me rickets!
The childhood scourge of the 19th century that caused weak bones and poor, bowlegged little tykes could be making a comeback, according to a study of 1,500 children over a seven-year period. Doctors followed bone-density growth of 6- to 7-year-olds and created a standard guide that they hope to use to identify kids at risk for more fractures, osteoporosis, and, on the most severe end of the spectrum, rickets. Apparently, there is concern that rising rates of childhood obesity and calcium deficiency signal impending, bone-crunching doom.
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