Sunny D, come back to me

Published at Schema Magazine

Non-white Canadians have insufficient amounts of Vitamin D, putting them at greater risk for rickets, cancer, osteoporosis, tuberculosis, and influenza, among other nasty things.

“The research, which is awaiting publication in a medical journal, found that 100 per cent of those of African origin were short of vitamin D, as were 93 per cent of South Asians (those of Indian or Pakistani origin), and 85 per cent of East Asians (those of Chinese, Indochinese or Filipino origin, among other countries).”

This was the grave finding reported in The Globe and Mail’s December 19 cover story: Are you getting enough Vitamin D? Although higher levels of melanin, our natural pigmentation-producing sunscreen, help protect tanned people from being sunburned in hot climates, they impede the production of Vitamin D in colder and darker locales (ie. Canada).

Read the article to find out just why. And then drink some milk or something.