Did you know that vitamin D deficiency is common among African Americans?Did you know that comparedwith other races, this defect makes AfricanAmericans more likely to develop more common diseases? I knew this before I started to understand Emily Allison Francis.Shewrote a book on vitamin D deficiency and why vitamin D is important enough for people, especially African Americans.I strongly recommend that you requesthis book,"Correctingthe Vitamin D Deficiency Epidemic: Strategies to Fight Disease and Prolong the LifeofBlacks", available on Amazon.com. What is the motivation for publishing the book? While working as a librarian at Med garAvers College
in Brooklyn, I searched various databases to help students complete research tasks.Many of these students arestudying science or nursing. Whilehelping them with their research, I was shockedby the data showing that blacks sufferfrom a disproportionateproportionof major chronic diseases.
Vitamin D is essential for good health:
I also found that research
showsthat vitamin D is essential for good health, and many blacks are severely deficient in vitamin D. Basedon thisinformation, I connected bitby bit and saw the link between vitamin D deficiency andchronic diseases in blacks. Doesvitamin D deficiency directly affect you, your family, or someone in the community? Many of my family and friends have suffered and died from vitamin D-related illnesses. I believe that if the information in my book is available in our community,more people couldtake vitamin D supplements to ease their
pain and prolong their life. . However, I have heard some inspiring stories about how vitamin D can help people improve their health. Some of these stories are
in the book.
A70-year-oldwoman who had sufferedfrom extreme muscle:
A70-year-oldwoman who had sufferedfrom extreme muscle and bone pain throughout her body for many years explained that she now does not
skip vitamin D supplements every day because vitamin D helpsthe pain goaway.A man explained that vitamin D has cured his anxiety after several hours of sun exposure every day for about 3 weeks. His anxiety problem disappeared andhe stopped taking anxiolytics. A womansaid that she had severe pain in her legs and was
walking limp. After taking vitamin D supplements for about a month, youcan dance in high heels.
Reduce diabetes medications after taking vitamin D:
Another womanwith diabetes experienced healthierblood sugar levels after optimizing vitamin D levels and was able to reduce diabetes medications after taking vitamin D. Now she will
neverrun out of vitamin D. Who hasahigher risk ofsufferingfrom this deficiency? Because? Vitamin D deficiency is a global epidemic. More than 50% of the world’s population is at risk of vitamin D deficiency, and people with dark skin are at a high risk. A recent 10-year national survey intheUnitedStates showed that 97% of blacks lack vitamin D. Subgroups of the black population are most at risk. Some of the black subgroups most atrisk are the elderly, the detained, and institutionalized individuals, such as hospitalized and incarcerated blacks.
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