Everyone should consider taking vitamin D supplements to counter the lack of sunshine in England, government experts are proposing.
Oh, God, not more “experts”. Thing is, I’ve lived in the UK nearly all my life. Vitamin D deficiency has never been a concern – despite our iffy weather conditions with its dark winters and grey skies. Indeed, the only people who have ended up suffering rickets in recent years as a consequence of vitamin D deficiency come from a group of people who shall remain nameless, for fear we may offend them – because they cover up their women from head to toe, thereby not allowing sunlight to touch their skin. So, rather than offend those who shall not be mentioned, the “experts” are suggesting that we all be medicated.
Oh, do fuck off!
And, doubtless, the “experts” having short memories, have forgotten the scare over skin cancer that has been doing the rounds these last few years… Mostly, of course, from those self-same “experts” and their fake charities and parasitic hangers-on.
Yet..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25861078
But..
‘Those with darker skin, such as people of African, Caribbean and South Asian origin, and people who wear full-body coverings, as well as pale-skinned people have also been shown to be at higher risk.’
If you hide under Burkas, or slap the sun screen on all the time, you will get rickets. End of story.
This scattergun approach to any problem is just so stupid. If some people have vitamin D deficiency then isn’t it obvious that it is those people who need to address the problem? Why on earth would people who don’t have the problem want to take measures to deal with a problem that they don’t have? Why are these things so simple and straight forward to us ordinary idiots and so difficult for the experts to get their expert heads around? Anyway, it’s 2015 aren’t we supposed to have a Mediterranean climate by now.
Except it isn’t a scattergun approach. The researchers say that “There is little reason to prescribe vitamin D supplements to healthy adults”.
And then go on to say precisely the opposite.