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Correcting the Vitamin D Deficiency Epidemic: Strategies to Fight Diseases and Prolong Life for Black People
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Product Description More than 90% of Dark-skinned People are Critically Deficient in Vitamin D. Did you know that many chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, mental illness, pregnancy related complications, asthma, and arthritis (to name a few) in dark-skinned people are associated with a Vitamin D deficiency?More than 90 percent of dark-skinned people are critically deficient in vitamin D disproportionately from chronic diseases. Much of this suffering can be avoided by taking a few simple steps.This is the first book to comprehensively address chronic vitamin D deficiency among dark-skinned people. Written by science educator and holistic health practitioner, Emily Allison-Francis, in Correcting the Vitamin D Deficiency Epidemic you'll discover: How to optimize your vitamin D levels if you are dark-skinned Why dark-skinned people are predisposed to vitamin D deficiency How chronic vitamin D deficiency contributes to diseases such as cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity. Why it is critically important that pregnant dark-skinned women optimize their vitamin D levels How children can benefit from vitamin D How dark-skinned athletes can benefit from vitamin D How elderly dark skinned people can benefit from vitamin D How hospitalized, dark-skinned people can benefit from vitamin D How some medications might affect your vitamin D levels The amount of melanin you have in your skin affects the amount of vitamin D you can produce. Melanin protects against skin damage from too much UVB exposure, so darker skins with more melanin allow less UVB to enter the skin. With less UVB getting through the skin, less vitamin D is produced each minute.This book provides much needed insight into the possible involvement of vitamin D deficiency as a major contributor to the well known health disparities afflicting our African American community.Patients and physicians should heed this advice.If you have dark skin and are concerned about your health for you and your family then the straightforward information contained in Correcting the Vitamin D Deficiency Epidemic is a must-read! Take charge of your health and order your copy today! Review This book provides much needed insight into the possible involvement of vitamin D deficiency as a major contributor to the well known health disparities afflicting our African American community. Patients and physicians should heed this advice. Vitamin D deficiency plays an important role in many diseases that are disproportionally fatal to people of color. The author draws attention to this sad situation, and the need for all society, and concerned people of all ethnicities to act upon it. Cedric Garland, PhD., Dr. P.H., F.A.C.E.Professor, University of California San Diego School of Medicine. La Jolla,California The author has done a masterful job of synthesizing and organizing the emerging information on the health benefits of vitamin D solar ultraviolet B radiation,especially for black Americans. Her logical and very readable presentation should be required reading for every black family in the United States; white and brown Americans could learn much from it as well. William B.Grant, PhD ., Director, Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center, San Francisco, California This book provides much needed insight into the possible involvement of vitamin D deficiency as a major contributor to the well known health disparities afflicting our African American community. Patients and physicians should heed this advice. Bruce Hollis, PhD ., Professor of Pediatrics, The Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC Vitamin D deficiency is present in over two thirds of African Americans living in the United States. Several diseases common to African Americans are strongly associated with vitamin D deficiency. This book covers the links between vitamin D deficiency, vitamin D status in African Americans and the diseases
