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The Sun Is Raciss!
Public Health England report fails to explain disparity People from ethnic minorities are up to twice as likely to die of coronavirus, according to an official report that has been criticised for not establishing why this is the case. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/e...risk-q8zpd3gsq Obviously the newspaper neglected to to say "likely to die of coronavirus comorbidities, but when o when is someone going to tell the non-natives that at these latitudes, even a YOUNG dark-skinned negro male for example, needs THIRTY SIX straight hours of sunlight in order to make enough vitamin D.
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December 4th, 2020 | #3 |
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UK to give "free" Vitamin D supplements to over 2.5 million ‘vulnerable people’
People on the clinically extremely vulnerable list will get a letter inviting them to opt in for a supply of Vitamin D tablets to be delivered to their homes.
Deliveries will start in January. They'll provide four months' worth of free supplements. (paid for by the tax payer) "Vitamin D is important for our bone and muscle health," says Dr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England. "We advise that everyone, particularly the elderly, those who don't get outside and those with dark skin, take a Vitamin D supplement containing 10 micrograms (400IU) every day. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55...20care%20homes. Waste of money, it won't work. |
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January 8th, 2021 | #5 |
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"Human" Migration Patterns Over the Last 500 Years Connected to Vitamin D Deficiencies Today
People’s ability to synthesize vitamin D from sunlight declines with skin pigmentation, and that vitamin D deficiency is directly associated with higher risk of mortality, from illnesses including cardiovascular disease, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and certain cancers.
A new study in the Oxford Economic Papers finds that migration flows the last 500 years from high sunlight regions to low sunlight regions influence contemporary health outcomes in destination countries. The researchers here noted that people’s ability to synthesize vitamin D from sunlight declines with skin pigmentation, and that vitamin D deficiency is directly associated with higher risk of mortality, from illnesses including cardiovascular disease, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and certain cancers. Recent research even finds that vitamin D affects the severity of COVID-19. Researchers here focused on groups from high sunlight regions that migrated to low sunlight regions between 1500 and today. The resulting population shifts caused the risk of vitamin D deficiency to rise substantially. The researchers explored the aggregate health consequences of such migration over a long historical perspective. Researchers here constructed a measure that proxied the risk of vitamin D deficiency in a given population. The measure tracked the difference between sunlight intensity in the ancestral place of residence of the population, as well as the actual level of sunlight intensity at the place of current residence. Using the difference between ancestor and ambient sunlight as a measure of the potential risk of vitamin D deficiency, researchers then examined its explanatory power in relation to life expectancy around the world. Researchers found that greater risk of vitamin D deficiency is negatively correlated with life expectancy, all else equal. Researchers here noted that today there is widespread awareness of the harmful effects of excessive exposure to sunlight, which leads people to try to prevent sunburn through methods like sunscreen and limited outdoor exposure. Effective treatments of skin cancer are also widely available. People also spend more time indoors than their prehistoric ancestors, which lowers their exposure to sunlight. Consequently, the risk of premature death due to excessive sun exposure has decreased since prehistoric times. However, the lower exposure times to sunlight increases the risk of vitamin D deficiency, particularly in people with higher skin pigmentation, whose ancestors came from high sunlight regions. Ultimately the researchers here concluded that a migration-induced imbalance between the intensity of skin pigmentation and ambient sunlight can both relate and explain present-day global health differences. Low sunlight regions that have received substantial immigration from high sunlight regions experience lower life expectancy than would have been the case in the absence of such migration flows. “This research is important because it is the first research to document a link between an increased risk of vitamin D deficiency and differences in life expectancy across countries and regions. It thus serves to highlight the potentially huge benefit in terms of additional life years of taking vitamin D supplements, particularly during the autumn and winter,” said author Dr. Thomas Barnebeck Andersen. Reference: 7 January 2021, Oxford Economic Papers. https://scitechdaily.com/human-migra...iencies-today/ |
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