Correcting the Vitamin D Deficiency Epidemic: Strategies to Fight Diseases and Prolong Life for Black People

More than 90% of Dark-skinned People are Critically Deficient in Vitamin D.Did you know that many chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, mental illness, pregnancy related complications, asthma, and arthritis (to name a few) in dark-skinned people are associated with a Vitamin D deficiency?

More than 90 percent of dark-skinned people are critically deficient in vitamin D disproportionately from chronic diseases. Much of this suffering can be avoided by taking a few simple steps.

This is the first book to comprehensively address chronic vitamin D deficiency among dark-skinned people. Written by science educator and holistic health practitioner, Emily Allison-Francis, in Correcting the Vitamin D Deficiency Epidemic you'll discover:

• How to optimize your vitamin D levels if you are dark-skinned
• Why dark-skinned people are predisposed to vitamin D deficiency
• How chronic vitamin D deficiency contributes to diseases such as cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity.
• Why it is critically important that pregnant dark-skinned women optimize their vitamin D levels
• How children can benefit from vitamin D
• How dark-skinned athletes can benefit from vitamin D
• How elderly dark skinned people can benefit from vitamin D
• How hospitalized, dark-skinned people can benefit from vitamin D
• How some medications might affect your vitamin D levels

This book provides much needed insight into the possible involvement of vitamin D deficiency as a major contributor to the well known health disparities afflicting our African American community.  Patients and physicians should heed this advice.

Vitamin D deficiency plays an important role in many diseases that are disproportionally fatal to people of color.  The author draws attention to this sad situation, and the need for all society, and concerned people of all ethnicities to act upon it. Cedric Garland, PhD., Dr. P.H., F.A.C.E.Professor, University of California San Diego School of Medicine. La Jolla,California 
The author has done a masterful job of synthesizing and organizing the emerging information on the health benefits of vitamin D solar ultraviolet B radiation,especially for black Americans.  Her logical and very readable presentation should be required reading for every black family in the United States; white and brown Americans could learn much from it as well.  William B.Grant, PhD., Director, Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center, San Francisco, California  
This book provides much needed insight into the possible involvement of vitamin D deficiency as a major contributor to the well known health disparities afflicting our African American community.  Patients and physicians should heed this advice.
Bruce Hollis, PhD., Professor of Pediatrics, The Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
 
Vitamin D deficiency is present in over two thirds of African Americans living in the United States.  Several diseases common to African Americans are strongly associated with vitamin D deficiency.  This book covers the links between vitamin D deficiency, vitamin D status in African Americans and the diseases associated with vitamin D deficiency.
Vin Tangpricha, MD., PhD., Associate Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta, GA

Emily Francis was an educator for more than forty years. Her many years of service in education included being a nutritionist, high school science teacher, and high school and college librarian. She taught biology, earth science, food and nutrition, and library research skills to high school students during her tenure with the New York City Department of Education. She also served as an adjunct professor and reference librarian at Medgar Evers College, City University University of New York. Ms. Francis earned an associate degree from the Jamaica School of Agriculture, a bachelor's in nutrition from Tuskegee University in Alabama, a master's in nutrition from Hunter College, City University of New York, and a post graduate diploma in education from the University of the West Indies. Ms. Francis was passionate about empowering her community with holistic health education and regularly provided health education workshops for community organizations throughout New York City.