More hospitals or more vitamins?
More hospitals or more vitamins?
Troy Media
BELLEVILLE, Ont.–An acquaintance of mine in his late 70s recently told a group that he had just been hospitalized with pneumonia for five days. The local hospital system, he said, was completely gridlocked, jammed to the rafters with people like him. No rooms were available and patients were in the corridors.
Some of his listeners, keenly aware of a local initiative to construct a new hospital, responded, “This just proves how much we need the new hospital!”
But as a longtime student of nutrition, my reaction was, “This just proves how deficient Canadians are in vitamin D!” It also revealed how unaware most Canadians are of this crucial vitamin.
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