Re:extreme coverings on humans effecting health

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Dear Natarbara,

 

You asked whether or not covering up so much might or might not cause

damage to females. Well, everyone needs a dose of vitamin D for bones

to grow and maintain those skeletons. And the Vitamin D helps stave off

infection, too. Calcium can't work without it. People get D through

sunlight.

 

Dark skinned people, (I'm saying here in the US, blacks and at the time

in large influx of Lebonnese in Chicago, where the study was done,) for

instance, were getting rickets at the turn of the 19th into the 20 th

century because they moved to Northern climates with less sunlight and

they weren't getting enough Vitamin D in their diets until D was

introduced into pasturized milk.

 

Fair-skinned people can manufacture all the vitamin D they need for a

week by exposing only their cheeks to the Sun for about 15 minutes, once

a week. So yeah, too much covering up could cause damage. It'd cause

damage to anybody!

 

BTW: on the other hand in the very cold regions of the earth, the

indigenous populations tend to eat (native game) liver, which is rich in

Vitamin D. (I'm thinking Aliuet, Eskimo, Native Americans, and Europeans

like Lapplanders here....Tibetans and Nepales are going to go for

...what? Yak milk for Vitamin D? maybe the meat too.)

 

It balances out: If a being doesn't wear clothing the person would fry

in the Sun, and freeze in the winter, but some skin does need to be

exposed if you want strong bones and teeth, and resistance to

infection.Take off too much in summer and risk skin cancer and premature

wrinkles..

 

Also looking through a thick net all the time isn't so hot on one's

eyes, either.

 

And that's your ethnobotany lesson for the evening, folks.

 

Best Wishes,

 

Denise N.