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

from People of Color in the U.S. June 2012

Which is based on US Census projections for 2004: in thumbnail

Vitamin D Deficiency 10X more likely for blacks, 2.5X Hispanic, and 3X other people of color

Deficiency is < 17.5 nanograms of vitamin D in this chart

• Overview Dark Skin and Vitamin D

• Blacks born in Africa and moved to US had 27X higher rate of TB than people born in the US 2000-2009

• 82 % of black US adults < 20 ng of vitamin D – Jan 2011

• 80 % of South Asian Women in UK had less than 10 ng of vitamin D in winter – April 2012

• 88 % of African immigrants to Melborne had < 20 ng of vitamin D

• Immigrant vitamin D deficiency in Europe – May 2011

• All items in Skin Color and vitamin D items

• 5 out of 6 UK dark skinned kids who were vitamin D deficient had no symptoms – May 2012

• Dark skin births are much riskier due to lack of vitamin D

• Overview Vitamin D deficiency in the Middle East

• Virtually all Native American children low on vitamin D and had indications of diabetes – Oct 2011

• Striking ethnic health disparity – blacks dying due to lack of vitamin D – Nov 2011

• Black Sudanese children 350X more likely to have rickets than other Australians – April 2012

• Vitamin D insufficiency in UK youths – 37X more likely if dark skin – July 2011

• Race vs vitamin D level - Veith May 2011 has the following chart

  University of Toronto, Canada Students

  African, East Asian, South Asian, Other - virtually all vitamin D deficient in the winter

Dark skinned people have almost the same health problems vitamin D deficient whites

CLICK HERE for details, Dr. Grant

Factoids from 2010 US Census

• More than half of the growth in the total population of the United States between 2000 and 2010 was due to the increase in the Hispanic population.

• The Asian population grew faster than any other major race group between 2000 and 2010.

• The populations of California, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, and New Mexico are "majority-minority,"

  • meaning over 50% of the population was a minority.

Also called Visible Minority WikiPedia

Canada: 2001 13.4% ; 2006 16.2% ; 2012 19.6% (projected)

In Canada "visible minority" describes

Blacks, Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Koreans, Latin Americans, Pacific Islanders, South Asians, and West Asians/Arabs

In Vancouver, Canada "visible minorities" actually comprise the majority of the population.

Distribution of "visible minorities" in Canada

Ethnic Groups in London from Wikipedia