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GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition · key term
A childhood condition in which bones become soft and may become misshapen, commonly associated with vitamin D deficiency.
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Specification 3.2.2.1, 3.2.3.4 · Paper 1
Revise: Fat-Soluble VitaminsDeficiency can cause rickets in children, whose growing bones become soft and may become misshapen. In adults, deficiency can cause osteomalacia, or soft bones.
A condition in children in which developing bones become soft and weak, commonly associated with insufficient vitamin D or calcium.
Link each vitamin to a specific function and deficiency effect: vitamin D helps calcium absorption, so deficiency can cause rickets in children.
Distinguish coronary heart disease from high blood pressure, and rickets from osteoporosis.
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