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Originally Posted by Ted_Hutchinson
It's strange then that you can find the same condition in vitamin D deficient mice. Some get flathead some get rickets. You prove to me that babies with flat heads aren't vitamin D deficient or haven't been throughout pregnancy/lactation and I'll consider your evidence. Until then I will continue to believe that it's most likely that vitamin D deficiency in early years contributes to many of the structural problems that increasingly affect large numbers of our younger people.
If the cause you state were the WHOLE truth then this condition would be a lot more frequent. There is a reason why some kids have this condition and not others. Vitamin D deficiency is the most likely reason. Common Sense. It regulates the uptake of calcium required for strong bones. If bones are soft they are more likely to become misshapen.
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I've always respected your opinion, but you read a study and I read a study and for some reason your study about the importance of Vitamin D always seem to be right, why is that? I can quote the three books I read if you'd like, which I'm sure you have a link to the mice study. To be honest I think across the board it's recognized that flathead syndrome is by laying in one positions for a long time. Here is a wiki link, which you are free to make edits and disagree with them as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positional_plagiocephaly
Only thing I can say is I'm incorrect about the year it was 1994, which it states "Since the back to sleep campaign came around in 1994, the increase in plagiocephaly has risen by 600%, but has lowered SIDS by 80%."
Of course I live in a tropical place that has sunshine most of the year. My state is called the sunshine state and we have more of a battle with heat than anything else, so we're probably getting plenty of Vitamin D naturally from the sun, so it could be why the dozen or so babies I've seen all have round heads. But 600% increase from the 1994 campaign tells me something that the majority isn't vitamin D. Vitamin D levels haven't changed 600% since 1994, so even though it may have some influence on something else the flathead syndrome is not a vitamin D issue over all.