Risk Factors for Vitamin D Deficiency

From Vitamin D Global Perspective - Holick June 2013

Quite comprehensive, but fails to include:

• Decreased Magnesium

• Decreased Cholesterol

• More people living in cities

• Whiter skin wanted

• Skin Cancer feared

• Soft drinks

• Smoking

• Meat from factory farms

• Increased PCBs

• DDT, Roundup

• Surgery and trauma

• Chemotherapy

• Excess Polyunsaturated fats

• Have a disease which decreases vitamin D: MS, HIV, Diabetes,

• Genes

• Statins (most)

See also Vitamin D Life

Overview Dark Skin and Vitamin D

Dark skin pregnancies and Vitamin D - many studies

Overview Pregnancy and vitamin D

Overview Obesity and Vitamin D

Overview Seniors and Vitamin D

Overview Deficiency of vitamin D

43 reasons for Vitamin D deficiency which has the following charts

Vitamin D reduced so low that Victorian age diseases are returning which has the following chart