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Originally Posted by manaboutown
Thanks! That is good to know.
My ophthalmologist has me taking a lot of fish oil but even a good thing can be overdone. Every physician we see needs to know our full story for even seemingly innocuous reasons.
Apparently many people are short on vitamin D. Even if one gets a lot of sun that may not take care of it. Melanin content of one's skin may have something to do with that. I am not sure.
"Larger amounts of the pigment melanin in the epidermal layer result in darker skin and reduce the skin's ability to produce vitamin D from sunlight.[23] It is not sure that lower levels of 25(OH)D for persons with dark skin have significant health consequences."
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I am amused by the way INFORMATION changes.
Eggs for example. In my lifetime, eggs were the rage in som popular child guide. My mother used to make a chocolate ??? put in TWO RAW EGGS which she ran through her blender. We had this every day with breakfast.
In recent past we were told no more than ???? four eggs a week. Most of us ate more than that as eggs are in baked goods etc. NOW, you are supposed to eat eggs every day.
Then there was or is the blueberry craze. Oh and as mentioned the fish oil craze. Oh and then as mentioned cross effects to food. ASIDE: many drugs say do not take with grapefruit. REASON-BEATS ME but, I've been told what it means is not within an hour or so.
RIGHT WRONG-WHO KNOWS. It is very unlikely that your doctor nows much about or has studied NUTRITION.