well if thats the case...then we should ALL be the picture of health...but we arent, and the VIT D theory is an illusion. the fact is..is that maybe we need to stop using the"one size fits all" mentality. white think jus because theyre deficient...we ALL are.
Almost 7 percent of the white patients were vitamin D-deficient, compared with more than 32 percent of the black participants. Whites with too little Vitamin D had twice the risk of dying from stroke as whites with adequate levels of the vitamin
The findings held up even after accounting for a host of socioeconomic and stroke risk factors, such as a history of diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol, body-mass index, smoking, physical activity and/or alcohol use.
Blacks could have a natural resistance to the negative effects of vitamin D deficiency, Michos said. This could explain why blacks have fewer bone fractures than whites, despite the higher incidence of low vitamin D levels, Michos added.
SOURCE: American Heart Association, Nov. 14, 2010, news release
stop using Vit D as an excuse