Troubled by nagging knee pain and fatigue for over a fortnight, 45-year-old corporate executive K Siddharth visited a city-based orthopaedic doctor only to find, much to his horror, that osteomalacia (softening of bones) had set in. Subsequent tests revealed that he had been suffering from severe Vitamin-D deficiency over a period of time. The single most important natural source of Vitamin-D generation in the body is sunlight.
And it's a paradox that in a round-the-year sunny country like India, over 80% of the urban population suffers from Vitamin-D deficiency in varying degrees. Ongoing medical research in India shows that at the root of several debilitating ailments, from deteriorating bone and muscle health to higher exposure to the risk of heart attack and diabetes, is Vitamin-D deficiency. Believe it or not, more than 50% doctors in the Port City too have been diagnosed with…
