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... skin ranging into shades of pink is as " abnormal " as is lactase sufficiency in adulthood . Most of humankind possesses brown or dark skin , and perhaps as re- cently as ten - thousand years ago no humans anywhere had skin which ...
... skin ranging into shades of pink is as " abnormal " as is lactase sufficiency in adulthood . Most of humankind possesses brown or dark skin , and perhaps as re- cently as ten - thousand years ago no humans anywhere had skin which ...
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... skin color promotes the synthesis of vitamin D and the absorption of calcium , why is fair skin so " abnormal " ? The answer is cancer- cancer of the skin . Human skin owes its color to the presence of particles known as melanin , the ...
... skin color promotes the synthesis of vitamin D and the absorption of calcium , why is fair skin so " abnormal " ? The answer is cancer- cancer of the skin . Human skin owes its color to the presence of particles known as melanin , the ...
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... skin that they could expose to vitamin D - inducing radiation since they had to bundle up to protect themselves ... skin to facilitate vitamin D , synthesis . Since Vitamin D3 will only prevent rickets or osteomalacia if calcium intake ...
... skin that they could expose to vitamin D - inducing radiation since they had to bundle up to protect themselves ... skin to facilitate vitamin D , synthesis . Since Vitamin D3 will only prevent rickets or osteomalacia if calcium intake ...
Contents
ONE Good to Think or Good to Eat? | 13 |
TWO Meat Hunger | 19 |
THREE The Riddle of the Sacred Cow | 47 |
Copyright | |
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