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