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Hypothesis: Why so many females in the Middle East are now Vitamin D Deficient

Based on reading about dress codes for women and recently seeing the movie Wadjda , which is set in Saudia Arabia

Dress codes started when living in tribes and women may have only needed to cover themselves when there were outside male visitors
Plenty of access to the sun most of the time
Dress codes continued when people moved to cities
Women still got vitamin D in courtyards or rooftops - not wear excessive clothes when men from the family could not see them
Even being in the shade the women would get about 1/3 the amount of vitamin D/hour
Air conditioning became prevalent in the last portion of the 20th century, allowing people to escape the heat
Rate of Multiple Sclerosis in women has gone up 6X in the past 30 years in Tehran (MS is strongly related to lack of vitamin D)
Predict that rickets will make its appearance soon in the Middle East
Turkey managed to reduce rate of rickets by 60X by giving 400 IU of vitamin D to EVERY child

Hajab prevalence: Wikipedia
from Wikipedia Nov 2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab_by_country

Nice dress code summary

Male Dominated Culture joke

See also Medical Publication

Ethnicity, Clothing Style And Body Mass Index Are Significant Predictors Of Vitamin D Insufficiency In Germany Oct 2014
Turkish women in Germany were 3.6 X more likely to have low vitamin D(<30 ng)when they wore covered clothing

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Hypothesis: Why so many females in the Middle East are now Vitamin D Deficient

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- Veiled Somali pregnant women in Sweden had low vitamin D and were weak – Dec 2013 Painful to be a female Saudi teacher (very low vitamin D) – Nov 2014 Only takes 10 minutes of sun to make a month’s worth of vitamin D while wearing the Hijab (NOT) Oct 2014 VPS Healthcare in Abu Dhabi invested million dollars in Vitamin D research - Sept 2014 Premenopausal Breast Cancer 10X more likely if total body coverage (Iran) – 2014

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