Lunch Break: Darwin Meets NASA
Nina Jablonski, author of Skin: A Natural History, explains the history of human skin pigmentation, and what Charles Darwin would have seen if he had access to NASA's satellites.
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Ezra Klein
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September 2, 2009; 12:40 PM ET
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I'm glad someone is finally warning people of color about vitamin D deficiency--it really is an invidious health condition, and one that's been far too little noted.
Not to mention, our current approach to addressing it is totally stupid. There's a significant overlap in the United States between people who are lactose-intolerant due to heredity and the people who would need Vitamin D supplementation. So, why the heck are we fortifying milk with vitamin D? We should be fortifying other foods. I dunno, maybe cooking oil or some other staple that everyone uses.