I had the occasion to visit the dermatologist a little while back. She checked my aging Nordic skin. "Ummm" she says, "This looks a little troubling". "Do you use sunscreen?" blah blah blah "You should be careful about getting too much exposure to the Sun's harmful rays, especially with this type of skin."
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I had the occasion to visit my family practice doctor to get the results of a routine blood work up. "Well, everything looks pretty good, though you do need to cut back on [blah blah blah]. However though, you are lacking in Vitamin D."
But I drink my milk every morning Dr. Dyo, I tell him. Dr Dyo replies, "That ain't going to cut it, I mean for a pasty white boy like you, you are seriously deficient in Vitamin D. In fact you are developing rickets, your bones are about to be warped!"
How about scurvy? Am I going to be like a salty, sea-dog with scurvy?" "No, vitamin C intake looks fine, but you'll have to take several weeks of mega dose Vitamin D (here's a prescription - and they're cheap pills) and of course you'll have to get out into the sun a bit more to allow you body to process the vitamin D - [pasty white boy]."
Tough choices. The plight of a pasty white boy: Sun or Shade? Bones or Epidermis? Rickets of Carcinoma?
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I had the occasion to visit my family practice doctor to get the results of a routine blood work up. "Well, everything looks pretty good, though you do need to cut back on [blah blah blah]. However though, you are lacking in Vitamin D."
But I drink my milk every morning Dr. Dyo, I tell him. Dr Dyo replies, "That ain't going to cut it, I mean for a pasty white boy like you, you are seriously deficient in Vitamin D. In fact you are developing rickets, your bones are about to be warped!"
How about scurvy? Am I going to be like a salty, sea-dog with scurvy?" "No, vitamin C intake looks fine, but you'll have to take several weeks of mega dose Vitamin D (here's a prescription - and they're cheap pills) and of course you'll have to get out into the sun a bit more to allow you body to process the vitamin D - [pasty white boy]."
Tough choices. The plight of a pasty white boy: Sun or Shade? Bones or Epidermis? Rickets of Carcinoma?
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