Suicide rate among Native American teens increasing (yet no mention of low vitamin D)
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Struggles With Suicides Among Its Young New York Times
Dark skinned people around the world now have low vitamin D levels
Vitamin D levels are the lowest during the Winter and early Spring
Native American teens may want to lighten their skin
– so they may keep out of the sun, and thus get even less vitamin D
Suicide is related to low levels of vitamin D
See VitaminDWiki
* Suicide associated with low vitamin D - many studies
* Suicide 2X more likely with low vitamin D (in military) – Jan 2013
* Depression **category listing has items along with related searches**
* Depression appears to consume vitamin D – Feb 2015
* Less recent sun, more suicide (similar title to our short video: less sun, more disease) – Sept 2014
* Avoiding the sun (and vitamin D) – most Chinese medical students do not want darker skins – Feb 2015
Suicide Trends Among Persons Aged 10–24 Years — United States, 1994–2012 CDC March 2015 has the following table
Note: American Indian/Alaskan Native suicide increasing by 49% per decade (by suffication, all ages)
Perhaps higher rate if include all forms of suicide