He focused on breathing techniques to assist with his asthma, and by exercising outside in his shorts, was able to cure his rickets which is caused by a vitamin D deficiency.

专于呼吸技巧以帮助改善的气喘，借由穿着短裤在户外运动，能够治疗因为缺乏维命 D 所引起的佝偻病。

Rickets usually affects malnourished children from poor countries– children who don't have enough to eat – and it makes their bones weak.

佝偻病通常是那些贫穷国家没有足够食物吃的营养不良的儿童才会得的病，这种病让们的骨头很脆弱。

Without this vitamin variety, humans face deficiencies that cause a range of problems, like fatigue, nerve damage, heart disorders, or diseases like rickets and scurvy.

没有了这么多样化的维生素，人体将面临着各种各样的缺陷，会造成各种各样的健康问题比疲劳，神经受损，心律失常或者佝偻病和坏血病之类的疾病。

For example, rickets or osteomalacia can occur in chronic liver disease, due to the liver's inability to turn inactive vitamin D into 25-hydroxy-vitamin D.

例，慢性肝病患者可能会患佝偻病或骨软化症，这是因为肝脏无法将无性的维生素D转化为25-羟维生素D。

Five babies entered the study with rickets, but by the end, they all had beautifully strong bones.

研究开始时，有五个婴儿患有佝偻病，但到最后，们的骨骼都长得很强壮。

Pilates was a sickly child, suffering from asthma, rickets, and rheumatic fever.

彼拉提斯是个体弱多病的孩子，饱受气喘、佝偻病、和风湿热之苦。

Let's hear about how rickets – a disease caused by a lack of Vitamin D in the diet – is affecting some children in the UK. This is BBC reporter Mike Williams.

让我们听一听BBC记者迈克·威廉姆斯为我们介绍佝偻病对英国的儿童的影响。佝偻病是一种因饮食中缺乏维生素D而引起的疾病。

There was even one child with Rickets caused by vitamin deficiency that continued to take large amounts of straight cod liver oil over a period of 101 days.

有一个患有（因维生素缺乏而引起的）佝偻病的孩子，连续 101 天都选择服用大剂量的鱼肝油。

Treatment for both rickets and osteomalacia typically involves oral vitamin D supplementation and treating the underlying cause which could be any condition affecting the organs responsible for vitamin D activation.

佝偻病和骨软化症的治疗一般包括口服补充维生素D以及治疗潜在病因，即任何可能影响机体化维生素D的情况。

Some key symptoms of rickets are craniotabes and bow legs.

佝偻病的主要症状包括颅骨软化和O型腿。

Rickets-specific symptoms include, thin, soft skull bones, which is called craniotabes, delay in the closure of fontanelles, and bow legs, also known as genu varum.

佝偻病的特异性症状包括颅骨变薄变软，即颅骨软化，前囟迟闭，以及O型腿，又叫弓形腿。

Finally, another X-ray finding with rickets may be bowing of the legs.

最后，佝偻病X线下可见O型腿。

Now, X-ray imaging of rickets and osteomalacia might show signs of decreased bone mineral density or osteopenia.

佝偻病和骨软化症的X线检查，可能会有骨矿物质密度减低即骨质缺乏的征象。

Alright, as a quick recap, rickets, and osteomalacia are conditions in which bone softening occurs due to a mineral deficiency or lack of vitamin D.

好！快速回顾一下：佝偻病和骨软化症即由缺乏维生素D引起的骨质软化。

Inspired by the work of Funk and McCollum, Mellonby found that when fed on oatmeal alone, puppies developed rickets, but when given a diet rich in cod liver oil or suet, they recovered.

受富克和麦科勒姆工作的发，梅隆比发现，仅喂食燕麦粥的幼犬会患上佝偻病，但当给予富含鱼肝油或牛脂的饮食时，它们就会康复。

Charles developed his ability to talk later than most children, while he was a sickly infant, one who probably suffered from rickets which weakened his ankles in his youth.

查尔斯的说话能力比大多数孩子都晚，当时还是个体弱多病的婴儿， 很可能患有佝偻病， 导致年轻时的脚踝变得虚弱。

Meanwhile, more than 800,000 patients were admitted to hospital with malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies last year, with doctors even seeing cases of scurvy and rickets.

与此同时， 去年有超过80万患者因营养不良和营养缺乏症入院治疗，医生们甚至接诊了坏血病和佝偻病的病例。

For osteomalacia and rickets, the key symptoms are diffuse bone and joint pain, proximal muscle weakness, bone fragility, and increased risk of fractures with minimal trauma.

骨软化症和佝偻病的共同症状包括弥漫性骨和关节痛、近端肌肉无力、骨脆，及轻微外力即可引起骨折。

But Emma is very clearly Not a girl who's been stunted by rickets or pocked with sores and spots.

然而，埃玛显然并非那种因佝偻病而发育受阻，或被疮疖与斑点所困扰的女孩。

And the week before that, your mother had rickets?

上上周 你妈妈得了佝偻病吗？