Question about skin and wearing a veil

Evolution, Natural Selection, Medicine, Psychology & Neuroscience.

Moderators: Calilasseia, Mazille

Re: Question about skin and wearing a veil

 
 

Re: Question about skin and wearing a veil

#21  Postby Scot Dutchy » Jan 26, 2012 9:42 am

quisquose wrote:Rising vitamin D deficiency in the UK got quite a bit of airtime on Radio 4 this morning:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16726841

No mention of ethnicity or sex, but a family member who works in a children's hospital has previously mentioned her concerns about high levels of rickets in children of parents from the Indian sub-continent.

Whether there is any connection with wearing clothing designed to keep the sun out, in a country where there is bugger all sun, I don't know.

:dunno:


That is avery interesting article. Yes research here has been done on muslim women and has found them to be dangerously short of vit D. People not just muslims dont realise that especially in winter time how little vit D our bodies are producing.
Myths in islam Women and islam

"The only purpose economic forecasts have is that they make astrology respectable"- J.k. Galbraith
User avatar
Scot Dutchy
RS Donator
 
Posts: 9595
Age: 63
Male

Country: The Netherlands
Netherlands (nl)

Previous

Return to Biological Sciences

Who is online

Users viewing this topic: No registered users and 1 guest