American Higher Education Hits a Dangerous Milestone The Atlantic - May 2018
See also Vitamin D Life
- Overview Dark Skin and Vitamin D
- Dark skin births are much riskier due to lack of vitamin D
- Do blacks have a 5 year life penalty due to low vitamin D
- Striking ethnic health disparity – blacks dying due to lack of vitamin D – Nov 2011
- Preterm birth more likely if dark skinned and low vitamin D (not white-skinned) – April 2017
- Dark skin pregnancies 2.6 times more likely to have low vitamin D – March 2017
- Racial differences in health problems (premature births) disappeared when vitamin D levels were the same – April 2018
- 5,000 IU daily or 50,000 IU Vitamin D weekly repleted many dark skinned adolescents – RCT Dec 2015
Items in both categories Skin - Dark and Youth are listed here:
- Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder increasing (2.7X in US Blacks under age 18 in 20 years) – Sept 2018
- Half of obese black teens achieved at least 30 ng of Vitamin D with 5,000 IU daily – June 2018
- Half of US high school students will have dark skins by 2025
- Many US kids have less than 40 ng of Vitamin D – 99 out of 100 blacks, 91 out of 100 whites – Jan 2017
- 5,000 IU daily or 50,000 IU Vitamin D weekly repleted many dark skinned adolescents – RCT Dec 2015
- Suicide rate among Native American teens increasing (yet no mention of low vitamin D) – May 2015
- Forearm fracture 3.5X more often in black children with low levels of vitamin D – Sept 2012
- Bariatric surgery less than 30 ng of vitamin D – 82 pcnt teens, 100 pcnt of black teens – June 2012
- 5 out of 6 UK dark skinned kids who were vitamin D deficient had no symptoms – May 2012
- Virtually all young Koreans had less than 30 ng of vitamin D – 2012
- 97 percent of Native American children have less than 30 ng of vitamin D – Oct 2011
- Dark Skinned youths and vitamin D in Southern Canada - Dissertation 2011
- Vitamin D insufficiency in UK youths – 37X more likely if dark skin – July 2011
- Dark skinned teens use media much more - June 2011
- Obese children had low vitamin D – fat under dark skin – fat in white body – Mar 2011
- Red Alert – one in three pre-teens in Tehran had less than 5 ng of vitamin D – Feb 2011
- South African white children 48 ng vitamin D – black 37 ng – Feb 2011
- 2000 IU raised black teens vitamin D level to 34 ng and they lost fat – Oct 2010
- White children in Johannesburg do not need vitamin D supplements – Sept 2010
- Obesity in American-Indians and African-American teens
- Vitamin D and multiracial teens in US – March 2009
- Low vitamin D among black teens – March 2009
- Teens increasingly indoors - especially if dark skin
- Low vitamin D in teens: especially black or overweight – June 2010
- To increase vitamin D levels in children need 1000 or 2000 IU – June 2010