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To: ZULU
See my comment about ricketts.

Tropical people work all year in the sunlight. Without the dark skin, you get terrible sun burn and skin cancer. When I worked in Africa, we had to remove skin cancers from our albino patients.

But in northern climates, the problem is that a dark skin prevents the sun from letting your body develop vitamin D, so you are more prone to ricketts.

Women with ricketts develop deformed pelvises, and they die in childbirth...

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Within a few generations, darker skinned people die out... And vitamin D can be found in some foods, especially salmon and fish...hence the absense of ricketts in Eskimos.

126 posted on 08/30/2009 10:49:29 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: LadyDoc

“Within a few generations, darker skinned people die out...”

Modern man has been living in northern Europe more than 5,000 years.


133 posted on 08/31/2009 10:08:44 AM PDT by ZULU (God guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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