Data and research: http://bit.ly/42degreesN
Ever since doing Snake Oil visualization, I’ve become a little obsessed with optimising my diet. Hey – what else is there to do on a winter evening? Strange thing. keeps popping up in all kinds of research. Evidence seems to be growing for its extensive role in health, cancer prevention and even mental health and mood.
Deficiency may even be a contributing factor for the greater prevalence of heart disease and diabetes among African-Americans (dark skinned peoples have much more difficulty synthesising from sunlight). Nearly 100% African Americans have insufficient . Nearly 1 in 3 are severely deficient. (study)
I got curious. And inevitably that curiosity spawned a yomming great infographic.
And yep I’m now taking 2000IU supplements of daily.
DESIGN & RESEARCH: David McCandlessADDITIONAL RESEARCH: James Thomas Key, Pearl Doughty-White, Alexia Wdowski
ADDITIONAL DESIGN: Matt Hancock, Stefanie Posavec
SOURCES: National Institute Of Health, Archives Of Internal Medicine, British Medical Journal
DATA: http://bit.ly/42degreesNPosted in Disease, Health, Infographic.
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