Vitamin D deficiency linked to accelerated aging of bones
Everyone knows that as we grow older our bones become fragile and more easily damaged. Now a team of U.S. and German scientists led by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California Berkeley has shown that this bone-aging process can be significantly accelerated through deficiency of Vitamin D. This is the Vitamin that is produced when sunlight falls on your skin.
