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Is this specific to North America? As someone who lives along the equator, I think it's impossible to get too little sun exposure in these parts.
by majani 9y ago
Is this specific to North America? As someone who lives along the equator, I think it's impossible to get too little sun exposure in these parts.
- adventured 9y agoThe study was about Finland. Scandinavia and northern countries broadly often have a variety of bad health effects from very low VitD levels (including eg very high rates of multiple sclerosis). Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Canada, UK, Germany are among the nations with the highest rates of multiple sclerosis, heavily due to their low VitD. If you don't get enough sun (a minority of people anywhere on the planet do or can), Vitamin D can be an important supplement no matter where you live. It's well worth it to have a simple blood test done to get your levels checked, if you can at some point, just to know where you stand.
- richardknop 9y agoWell, most of landmass is north of equator actually. So North America, Northern Europe, Northern Asia, Greenland etc would be affected by this. Most of the landmass in southern hemisphere has lots of sunlight (Australia, SEA, South America).