People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by jniedrauer on Friday March 08, 2019 @11:53AM (#19339308)

Vitamin D deficiency has a lot to do with your climate. It's not realistic to get all of your vitamin D from food no matter what. I'm guessing you live in Seattle or some other place where you forget what the sun looks like sometimes?

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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by bpye on Saturday March 09, 2019 @01:05AM (#19344752)

Is there any easy way to know if you suffer vitamin D defeciency? I'm in Vancouver, and especially at this time of year you end up inside for pretty much all the daylight hours Monday-Friday.

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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by Mirioron on Sunday March 10, 2019 @11:38AM (#19352397)

It's diagnosed through a blood test. As far as I know, you can't really diagnose it accurately in any other way. But in developed countries the rule of thumb on that is:

Do you work outside in the sun? Do you eat a lot of fish? Do you take a vitamin D supplement? If you answered "no" to all of these questions then you probably have a vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D deficiency is very common.

>The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005 to 2006 data were analyzed for vitamin D levels in adult participants (N = 4495). Vitamin D deficiency was defined as a serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations ≤20 ng/mL (50 nmol/L). The overall prevalence rate of vitamin D deficiency was 41.6%, with the highest rate seen in blacks (82.1%), followed by Hispanics (69.2%).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21310306

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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by bpye on Sunday March 10, 2019 @04:48PM (#19354391)

Looks as though I should probably be making a doctor's appointment...

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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by izzydata on Friday March 08, 2019 @11:57AM (#19339347)

I live in Kansas. I just don't go outside ever. I was always told I was at high risk of melanoma due to my mother having it so I learned to stay indoors. I start burning within 15 minutes of peak sun.

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Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day by jniedrauer on Friday March 08, 2019 @12:09PM (#19339490)

I'm not a doctor, and I'm sure you've gotten good information. But you don't need that much sun to get your vitamin D. 15 minutes is enough for a whole week.

I've found for me personally that vitamin D supplementation helps, but my tendons/muscle attachments are still weak and injury prone unless I get some real sun.

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