Taking the easy way out in these people's MO. We already knew this.

Leave it to the British to rhyme a disease with one of their favorite pastimes...

If you're a parent, make your kid do something besides sit in front of the tv/computer screen all day. If you're an adult, do something besides sit in front of the tv/computer screen all day. Common sense should tell us that poor health of all kinds would be the likely results of that.

Looks like video games will just have to try a bit harder then, Jim. I think they could cause some disease some time soon.

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Bullshit. I've been gaming since I was TWO, and I'm 6'3 now, so tell me, Daily Mail, where are the rickets on me?

Awesome :D

I love The Chronicles of Rickets!

I haven't heard much about "Scientists prove that exposure to the media causes widespread panic, fear, hatred of other religions, nationalities, the young, going outdoors and staying indoors too long." in the media lately.

I wonder why...

Milk, silly.

Do you know what is particularly daft about the header: "TV and computer games blamed for return of rickets"? It implies that if you stopped watching TV and playing computer games, you would no longer be susceptible to contracting rickets! Which is wrong, of course. You need to go outside as well, or simply make sure you are getting plenty of Vitamin D , which is prevalent in milk, cereals, and some fish and mushrooms.

The fact that the media are now resorting to jumping on vague implications in order to condemn our hobby show to what extent they must resent it.

What's wrong with the British why do they naturally have weak bones and weak teeth? Back in the day you would check teeth to see if they were genetically inferior. Is this the issue?

A number of Muslim women who wear the niqab or burqa contract rickets because of a lack of sun exposure but I doubt that a paper would be too eager to pick a fight with religion. Also, since when are TV and videogames the only thing that can predispose you to rickets? You need to have a poor diet lacking in Vitamin D which has nothing to do with playing games. And you could just as easily contract the disease by spending all your time inside reading books.

Welcome back Jim.

Then get your kids a sun lamp and shut the fuck up. This is all bullshit. Stop playing videogames and go outside or you'll get rickets. Get back in here out of the sun or you'll get cancer.

@ Piellar
The sun helps the body process the vitamin D, rather than containing it.

Even if they were taking supplements, if they're locked in a basement it won't be that good.

The really pathetic part? If you were out in the sun for even 10 to 15 minutes a day, that's it, you'd soak up enough vitamin D requirement. Doesn't have to be a clear day, either. Those rays bust through clouds.

I've been gaming all my life and at 36 I'm nowhere near having rickets (just brain damage...totally games fault).
This is another one of those evolution at work type deals. If even at a kid's age, your child doesn't know how or when to take a break short of getting rickets, (what's next, scurvy from forgetting to eat any fruits and vegetables?) they are too stupid to survive in the world.
Sometimes you see a sick bird abandoned by a mom and nature, which might be cold but has an ecological balance it maintains when we don't interfere, it's not meant to be helped. It's TOO weak and not meant to make it.

Be like nature, stop helping those that aren't victims, but rather braindead. We'd see less of these morons getting older, having kids and continuing to plague our planet with their seed that was never meant to be spread except we kept these stupid deer in a wolves world protected.

Ahhh, just imagine for a moment...imagine a world where the severely stupid hadn't made it, hadn't lived long enough to breed...think how wonderful online gaming would be.

I think I'll run for President on a "leave your kids behind" platform.
Of course, I could never get elected. Not if someone black ran. Skin trumps resume.
But then I could beat that by offering a video console in every home. Because I don't need to keep that promise. It'd be unAmerican to deliver.

I'm off to work on my rickets some more. I want to one day lay in the hospital and brag about my Modern Warfare war injury. I'm trying for carpal.

the only physical deformity i could think of getting from video games (for me anyway) is bow legs or bad hips from sitting american indian style on the floor for 8 hours straight.

face + palm = me

They left out a few things video games also do that cause Vitamin D deficiency.

They make you a shut in.
They prevent you from eating cheese and green leafy veg.
They make you dark skinned.
They make you old.
They make you obese.
They make you wear head to toe body covering 'religious' garb.

Evidence! http://www.webmd.com/diet/vitamin-d-deficiency

This is huge!

While we're at it, video game critics cause high blood pressure and uncontrolled fits of rage/laughter to gamers. Critics should be banned.

Oh my god, Sterling, shouldn't you have posted "sh*tlings" instead of "shitlings"?