It's enough to send anyone thinking of starting a family scurrying to find a calendar - children born in the spring are more likely to develop a wide range of diseases than autumn children, revealed the Daily Mail, reporting on an Oxford University study.
"The likelihood of being asthmatic, autistic, schizophrenic or having MS are all linked to how much sunlight a mother gets when she is pregnant — with those who conceive in the summer not passing on enough vitamin D to their children at the vital time," the paper explained. Apparently, those born in November tend to be the healthiest and to live longest.
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