Darned ancestors: Light skin is more expensive than dark skin

People with light skin often buy sunscreen, deal with sunburn, and have to pay dermatologists to remove skin cancer

Whereas

It costs people with dark skin only about $5/year to deal with not getting enough sun.

just one 20 cent pill every other week

Can elect to restock low level of vitamin D very quickly for just $1.60

Far higher melanoma rates for light skinned males

||Melanoma incidence: US males (CDC)|Melanoma death rate: US males (CDC)

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See also VitaminDWiki

• Vitamin D deficiency diseases in dark skinned people living far from equator – Meta-analysis Oct 2013

• Dark Skinned adults need more than 45 minutes of UK summer sun daily – June 2013 vs take a pill which costs 2 cents per day

• Extra 4,000 IU daily raised the vitamin D levels of blacks to that of whites – July 2012

• Half of the US will be people of color – wonder how many will be vitamin D deficient

• Black women and vitamin D: Nigeria 26 ng, Chicago 12 ng – April 2013

• Overview Dark Skin and Vitamin D has the following chart

Shows the natural level of vitamin D to be about 50 ng