Sunlight Vitamin D : Dark skinned people don't absorb easily

Vitamin D may fight multiple sclerosis
by Lindsey Tanner, AP Medical Writer

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20 December 2006

CHICAGO (AP) - An abundance of vitamin D seems to help prevent multiple sclerosis, according to a study in more than 7 million people that offers some of the strongest evidence yet of the power of the ``sunshine vitamin'' against MS.

The research found that white members of the U.S. military with the highest blood levels of vitamin D were 62 percent less likely to develop multiple sclerosis than people with low levels.

There was no such connection in blacks or Hispanics, possibly because there were so few in the group studied. Also, the body makes vitamin D from sunlight, and the pigmented skin of blacks and other dark-skinned ethnic groups doesn't absorb sunlight as easily as pale skin.
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