Little Milk, Exercise Hurts Kids' Bones
November 26th, 2007 By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer(AP) -- Too little milk, sunshine and exercise: It's an anti-bone trifecta. And for some kids, shockingly, it's leading to rickets, the soft-bone scourge of the 19th century.
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