Grey skies this summer mean that children are more at risk of developing weak bones and other diseases, says Oliver Gillie
After the worst midsummer weather on record, you may feel something is missing - not only the sun but the sunshine vitamin, D.

The action of sun on skin, and of vitamin D on the body as a whole, have been shown to elevate mood as well as protect against disease. If you miss it, what about the children who are growing up without it? How will they get through next winter with what may be the lowest levels of D ever?

Children are at risk of serious diseases caused by insufficient vitamin D because the government’s Healthy Start programme is failing to provide promised vitamins. The infant vitamins, which are not reaching the public, contain vitamin D that not only protects against rickets and weak bones but also reduces the risk of multiple sclerosis, diabetes, and now, it is suggested, autism, too. more on autism

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