Health: Osteoporosis

Baroness Howe of Idlicote Excerpts

Tuesday 19th October 2010 Lords Chamber

[Earl Howe]

My noble friend is right. The job of the NHS in its public health role is to provide information about healthy lifestyle choices. NHS Direct does this at the moment, and in the future we will be looking to the new national public health service to maintain the provision of high quality and authoritative health advice. Moreover, as my noble friend says, that advice includes information about the value of a diet rich in vitamin D from oily fish, liver, cereals, eggs and so forth, as well as from safe exposure—I emphasise the word “safe”—to natural daylight.

[Baroness Howe of Idlicote]

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[Baroness Greengross]

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