The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Also, as you mentioned, people like African Americans, people with darker skin have much lower levels of vitamin D. In fact, African Americans, the most recent enhanced data that was published, they're 30 times more likely to be vitamin D deficient than Caucasians.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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And so there was a study that came out of the University of Chicago A few years ago that found African Americans in Chicago have to stay in the sun six times as long as a Caucasian to make the same amount of vitamin D in the skin.