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Vitamin D may tur out to be good for everything but auto accidents.
I think the skin cancer epidemic coincides with the campaign to discourage exposure to the sun. Everything in moderation. But if the sun is such a deadly cause of skin cancer, how did our ancestors survive?
Vit D is very interesting to me. Especially since I was dx’d with Prostate cancer last Oct. I think sun exposure has more benefits than risks, but the loons has guided into fear of cancer if we step outside. As I understand, 30 minutes of sun exposure for a person with fair to medium complexion will produce 15000 IU of D.
The autism/vit.D connection sounds like a plausible argument, given the effect of hormones on the developing brain.
I have an autistic son and a wife who spent her pregnancy by a pool in Clearwater Florida.
Neeeeeeeeext.
Sun avoidance isn’t the only factor in the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency. Maybe not even the main one. Over this same period, milk consumption has plummeted, and it has long been artificially fortified with vitamin D. This is briefly mentioned on page 8 of the article, and deserves more attention.
Excuses for avoiding milk consumption abound. A large portion of the US black population claims to be “lactose intolerant”, even though what limited research has been done on this subject has found that a majority of those who claim to be lactose intolerant actually aren’t. Still, soda and other soft drinks are used as the chief alternatives to milk by the supposedly lactose intolerant (of all races), and it’s safe to assume they also convert their children to these beverages earlier than other people. And then there’s the bizarre phobia re fat content of foods, which was promoted by both the government and the medical profession for a long time (hard to tell them apart sometimes), which has only recently started to let up. Blue milk is gross, so many people who are convinced they mustn’t drink milk with natural fat content just don’t drink milk at all. If the adults don’t have real milk around the house for their own consumption, they’re also less likely to have it handy for the young children. Plus the always-on-the-run lifestyle that has reached epidemic proportions, lends itself to carrying around sodas and juices and bottled water, but not milk which quickly goes bad without refrigeration. And then there’s the vegan fad . . . don’t even get me started on that one.
I’m going to let you tell the Imuses that it wasn’t George Bush injecting little kids with mercury based vaccines. That was their theory.
fyi
Meat and milk prices will rise to reflect environmental costs
(global warming)
[The Telegraph]
Posted on 07/08/2008 6:10:24 AM PDT by chessplayer
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