"Today’s children have weaker bones are are much more prone to fracture than children of a few decades ago. As Dr. Holick reports
Even more alarming is a new epidemic in which bone formation in children appears normal but is actually much softer than is should be. Girls today break their arms 56 percent more often than did their peers forty years ago. Boys break their arms 32 percent more often.
I’m sure the girls and boys of forty years ago were much more rough and tumble than the ones of today, yet the kids of today suffer more fractures.
While writing this post I got an email notifying me of a recent study showing that melanoma, a virulently malignant form of skin cancer is occurring with frighteningly high frequency in today’s teens. These are the adolescents at the leading edge of the great heoliophobe movement, the very ones whose parents, in an effort to protect them, coated these kids liberally with sunscreen every time they walked out of doors. Did their well-meaning parents set them up for this terrible disease? Are the chickens coming home to roost? It’s difficult to say for sure, but, in my opinion, it’s more than likely. Here’s what happened."
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