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Health news on the sunshine vitamin | Vitamin D
Canadians of colour have insufficient amounts of Vitamin D, putting them at greater risk for rickets, cancer, osteoporosis, tuberculosis, and influenza, among other rather nasty things.
"The research, which is awaiting publication in a medical journal, found that 100% of those of African origin were short of vitamin D, as were 93% of South Asians (those of Indian or Pakistani origin), and 85% of East Asians (those of Chinese, Indochinese or Filipino origin, among other countries)."
This was the grave finding reported in The Globe and Mail's Dec 19 cover story: Are you getting enough Vitamin D? Although higher levels of melanin, our natural pigmentation-producing sunscreen, help protect tanned people from being sunburned in hot climates, they impede the production of Vitamin D in colder locales, such as The Great White North (no pun intended) of Canada.
Read the article to find out just why. And then drink some milk or something.
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Posted by Daniel.TDecember 21, 2007 at 3:58 AM
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