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Healthier You Nutrition: Vitamin D Deficiency Epidemic Among Blacks Says New Book

Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent among dark-skinned people because high concentrations of melanin in dark skin block the production of vitamin D from the sun, the most natural and abundant source of vitamin D. More than 90 percent of Blacks have critically low vitamin D levels and Blacks also suffer disproportionate illness and mortality rates from major chronic diseases associated with vitamin D deficiency.

Correcting the Vitamin D Deficiency Epidemic: Strategies to Fight Diseases and Prolong Life for Black People explores the connection between vitamin D deficiency and the high illness and mortality rates among Blacks. It also provides practical steps that dark-skinned people worldwide can take to improve their vitamin D status as well as useful, natural health strategies to help prevent and fight chronic diseases. Leading scientists in the field of vitamin D research have commented on the book including:

    --  Dr. Cedric Garland, professor at the School of Medicine, University of
        California San Diego, who urges "all society, and concerned people of
        all ethnicities to act upon" the information provided in the book.
    --  Dr. William B. Grant, director of The Sunlight, Nutrition and Health
        Research Center, who advises that the book "should be required reading
        for every black family in the United States; white and brown Americans
        could learn much from it as well."
    --  Dr. Bruce Hollis, director of pediatric nutritional sciences at the
        Medical University of South Carolina, who implores "patients and
        physicians [to] heed [the book's] advice."
    --  And Dr. Vin Tangpricha, associate professor of medicine at Emory
        University School of Medicine, who notes: "This book covers the link
        between vitamin D deficiency, vitamin D status in African Americans and
        the diseases associated with vitamin D deficiency."

Copies of the book may be purchased from amazon.com and outlets posted at the website below.

Contact www.healthieryounutrition.com, info@healthieryounutrition.com or 718.916.8974 for more information.

SOURCE Healthier You Nutrition