Is Vitamin D deficiency the new epidemic sweeping the country?

Veenu Sandhu sets out to answer the question and find some solutions

In 2016, rapper Baba Sehgal released a song that was wacky even by his standards. He called it “Vitamin D”. It went something like this: Go go go go go go outside/ Kholo apni eyes wide/ Sun bole lelo Vitamin D ki ride. The gist of it was: step outside; open your eyes wide; the sun’s inviting you to take a vitamin D ride.

Sehgal’s songs aren’t something one would ordinarily take seriously. But this time round the rapper was, in his own way, drawing attention to a serious issue: vitamin D deficiency, which, if researches and doctors are to