They also studied the impact of vitamins and sunlight exposure in preventing rickets.

Adequate intake of vitamin D prevents rickets.

He showed that Vitamin D prevents rickets, a bone disease.

In 1921 Elmer McCollum identified an anti-rachitic substance found in certain fats that could prevent rickets.

The daily dose of 400 IU is required to prevent rickets and possibly also a wide range of chronic nonskeletal diseases.

There's barely enough now to prevent rickets, and it's not even doing that anymore because people aren't - they're staying away from dairy products more than they should.

The need for vitamin D, especially in the diet of children, had been recognized for preventing rickets.

Beyond its use to prevent osteomalacia or rickets, the evidence for other health effects of vitamin D supplementation in the general population is inconsistent.

He recognized the connection between getting people out into the fresh air and sunshine and preventing rickets and tuberculosis, then rampant in cities.

A sufficient amount of ultraviolet B light in sunlight each day and adequate supplies of calcium and phosphorus in the diet can prevent rickets.