Suprisingly low levels in Australasia | Is Vitamin D Low In Your Body?

It is known the low Vitamin D levels were seen in cold countries that experienced long winters and more dark days as seen in the extreme northern hemisphere. Sunshine or the lack of it was the reason why levels of Vitamin D were found to be low.

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Interestingly it has been seen that even in Australia, a country full of sunshine, Vitamin D levels were alarmingly low. Except for pains, aches or tiredness the deficiency of Vitamin D is hard to track visibly. It is only when severe vitamin D deficiency is present will we notice people suffering from it. major symptoms are bone deformities and intense pain.

Immediate Past-President of the Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society, Professor Rebecca Mason estimates that around a third of the population is vitamin D deficiency.

‘From a large Australian study (AusDiab), over 40 per cent of females have low levels in summer-autumn and 27 per cent of males and this figure rises to 58 per cent of females not having enough vitamin D in winter-spring, and 35% males at that time,’ she says.