Human beings need sunshine. "Are Muslim dress codes bad for women's health?," by Preeti Aroon for Foreign Policy (thanks to WriterMom):
Conservative Muslim dress codes may be causing vitamin D deficiency in women by limiting their exposure to sunlight, humans' main source for the vitamin, according to new research.Scientists had previously found high rates of vitamin D deficiency in Arab and East Indian women living in the United Arab Emirates. A follow-up study investigated the effect of vitamin D supplements on 178 UAE women, many of whom covered themselves entirely, faces and hands included, when outside their homes. Only two of the women did not have vitamin D deficiency prior to receiving supplements. The results were published by a team of scientists in the June issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Read it all.
"Only two of the women did not have vitamin D deficiency prior to receiving supplements."
...uh oh....closet Christians...
So not only is Islam poisonous to the logical humanitarian brain it is also bad for your body and health. It should be banned now as a HEALTH RISK.
Unfortunately, NOT wearing the costume is even more hazardous to these women's health.
I knew it, I just knew it. It simply can not be good for anyone to spend much of their life in a bag.
Moon Bat Syndrome
Vitamin D deficiency in Female Muslims caused by conservative Muslim dress codes which limit their exposure to sunlight. Symptoms include the inability to distinguish between right and wrong, monkeys and Jews, falsehood from truth, violence from peacefulness, children from firecrackers, murderers from prophets.
Suddenly, I like the idea of burqas, jilbabs, hijabs, niqabs, et al. Only, stay in KSA and wear it.
Lot more useful there.
There was an article about this in the SF Chronicle several weeks ago that a friend in the Bay Area emailed me--wish I still had the link. It was about the alarming rise in cases of rickets in the Bay Area (yes, in sunny California!). The doctors interviewed in the article said all cases were found among either poor African-American children (who, sadly, often live in neighborhoods where it is too dangerous to play outside) or in Muslim children whose mothers over-covered them (i.e. little girls) and/or rarely left the house with them. My friend told me the Muslim population in the Bay Area lives primarily in the suburbs, so it's not like their children need to stay inside for safety reasons like the inner-city children do.
Unfortunately, NOT wearing the costume is even more hazardous to these women's health.
Posted by: Marwan'sDaughter
Yes, you live a lot longer with a vitamin D deficiency than you do with a head deficiency.
...except you live without your synapses synapping...
Vitamin D deficiency predisposes a person to infection.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20061111/bob9.asp
Several kinds of cancer
http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/news/20031210/lack-of-vitamin-d-linked-to-pain
Even links to MS, etc.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2004/12/30/vitamin_d_deficiency_tied_to_host_of_dangers/
I just enjoy the sun on my body, and wind blowing through my hair. It is the way God made us.
Sounds like their god made a mistake somewhere, but if I remember correctly - burkas are not in the koran. I think only a very few of the big mo's wives wore a scarf.
This mistake only means that there is nothing divine about islam. It was thought up by an illiterate pagan. And with all the abrogated verses - anyone with half a brain could have figured out that the big mo's god wasn't too bright either. And then the Jews laughed at the big mo and that is when the jihad began - those Jews really pissed off the big mo and his dumb god.
In jihadwatch today, a poster brought up the fact that muslim males think that women are inferior because of they're being ""deficient" in intelligence and religion." One thing I have noticed in my life is that when a person, or a group, denegrates another or starts name calling - it is usually a reflection on the person doing the denigrating or name calling. An indication of a very big problem we usually sum up as an inferiority complex. And the muslim male certainly seems to fall into this category.
After reading it all, I found this:
"At least one commentator, though, is saying it's not higher doses of vitamin D that are needed, but rather, lower doses of fundamentalism."
"Yes, you live a lot longer with a vitamin D deficiency than you do with a head deficiency."
Posted by: Ebonystone
"...except you live without your synapses synapping..."
Posted by: Miss_Anthrope
Who needs You Tube or the Comedy Shop when I have you guys. LMAO!
Everybody may think this is funny but look a little deeper (afterall we are a westerners).
Link between Vitamin D and schizophrenia
Link below an update of a 2000 study. This is just interview but there are plenty of papers on the subject that have been coming out since 2000.
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1872656.htm#transcript
Study:
Group A: Rats born from sunlight deprived mothers
Group B: Rats born from mothers given sunlight
Both group of offspring were given psychosis inducing drugs. Group B displayed normal behavior when given the drugs that one would expect but Group A went really crazy.
Results
The ones who had come from sunlight deprived mothers ran around in a crazy manner more so then those that had come from mothers who had sunlight.
They then analyzed cross-section of their brains that showed those who had sunlight deprived mothers showed similar significant increase in the lateral ventricles that corresponeds to humans with schizophrenia.
Conclusions
This does not prove the same behavor will be found in humans but the rats brain is set up close enough to the humans to furthur research into the subject. In rats its proven. Sunlight deprived mothers lead to "crazy offspring" when some kind of inducing factor is added like the psychosis inducing drugs in this study.
Now my hypothesis
Is it possible that the radical behavor of some muslims could be realted to the vitamen D intake in the fetus. This could lead to the spike in suicidal behavior in some jihadist. That would explain the spike in suicide bombers within the rank of Islam. Perhaps the teachings of Quran work in a similar manner as the psychosis inducing drugs in Rats.
I know this sounds silly on the surface but it could play a role (even if a small role) could explain some of the extreame behavior.
The link between Vitamin D deficiency and Muslim dress was established a couple of years ago in Leeds (UK) after an alarming rise in Rickets, which had been all but eliminated from the UK over the past fifty years.
Greatcometof1577
Thank you for the schizophrenia research findings. I'm going to copy your comment to Up Pompei (UK). Indeed, I'm going to email Gandalf (Up Pompeii administrator) and ask him to put it up as a post.
Also going to email it to my brother in Australia for an opinion. He's a psychiatrist. Will also ask one other psychiatrist of my acquaintance for an opinion too. If they both come back 'provisionally plausible', I'll let you know through whatever comment thread is on top at the time. It will, of course, be OT for that thread, but I don't think anyone will mind.
As for myself, I'm a qualified but non-practising psychologist, more interested in "normal" (yes, that's right: what's normal?) human behaviour than clinical matters, but I do have some knowledge of the topic, and it sounds provisionally plausible to me. Certainly worth researching scientifically.
Cheers to Your Infidel Health
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THIS explains Rage Boy's behavior.
many health care workers in the Middle East have known about various problems caused by complete covering (full face, hands and feet) for at least 20 years.
some have wanted to speak out, but doing so now may be more even dangerous than it would have been in the past, due to the general increase in the Muslim sense of victimhood.
and in the West it will be difficult to deal with because mentioning the problem will be taken as an attack on The Community etc.
still, it is a positive thing that the UAE study was done at all, and surprising that it was discussed at the January 2007, the Arab Health Exhibition and Congress, see:
http://www.ameinfo.com/101786.html
wonder which journals in the region will cover it ?
"So not only is Islam poisonous to the logical humanitarian brain it is also bad for your body and health. It should be banned now as a HEALTH RISK."
Yes, and while they are at it, they should ban the cigarettes and alcohol too, as a HEALTH RISK! :D
Come on now. Let's not get carried away here.
Group A: Rats born from sunlight deprived mothers
Group B: Rats born from mothers given sunlight
Posted by: greatcometof1577
What is this a trick question?An exercize of which is sunni and which is shiite?
Both are rats,both are deprived of mothers and both live in the dark.
Naseems sect isn't even in the running,it just runs back to it's hole when the bigger rats come lurking about.
Hah a conversation about islam and rats.I CHOOSE THE RATS.
immigrate the rats,immigrate the rats,immigrate the rats,immigrate the rats,immigrate the rats.
Telephone your congressman TODAY!And don't forget to say ,immigrate the rats please,they EARNED it.
Replace Vitamin D with lead, and you get jihadist with rickets.
Kohl
The traditional eye cosmetic to be put around the eyes is commonly known as kohl. Other names may be used such as kajal, al-kahl or surma. In Western cultures, the name eye liner may be more common although names as kohl and kajal often are included in the product name.
The kohl products previously analysed for their contents have typically been local products from for instance Marocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India and Pakistan (e.g. Al-Ashban et al. 2004, Al-Hazzaa and Krahn 1995, Hardy et al. 1998 and 2004, Lekouch et al. 2001, Nir et al. 1992, Parry and Eaton 1991).
Al-Ashban et al. (2004) collected 107 kohl samples from different regions of Saudi Arabia and analysed for the presence of lead. Lead levels up to 53% (530 mg/g) were detected in some kohl samples.
Al-Hazzaa and Krahn (1995) analysed the elements in 21 kohl products from Saudi Arabia, India and the Middle East. Seven products did not contain lead while 4 contained between 2.9 and 34.1% lead and 10 products contained more than 84% lead.
Hardy et al. (2004) analysed 18 kohl samples, all purchased in Cairo and eleven of them originated in Egypt. The main component of six samples (4 from Egypt and 2 from India) was found to be galena (PbS). For a further ten samples, the main component was found to be one of the following: amorphous carbon, calcite (CaCO3), cuprite (copper(I)oxide, Cu2O), goethite (FeO(OH)), elemental silicon or talc (Mg3Si4O10(OH)2). For the last two samples the main component of each was an unknown amorphous organic compound.
In Oman, 47 samples of kohl products were collected, 15 contained lead. Of the lead containing samples 4 originated from India. The remaining 11 samples from India contained, besides lead, amorphous carbon, iron, zinc and calcium (Hardy et al. 1998).
Several studies have found increased levels of lead in the blood of infants to whom kohl was applied (e.g. Alkhawajah 1992, Al-Saleh et al. 1999, Nir et al. 1992, Rahbar et al. 2002, Shaltout et al. 1981). Also in adult users of kohl, increased lead blood levels have been observed following the use of kohl (Warley et al. 1968, Al-Ashban et al. 2004).
Some of the inorganic or organic colorants present or potentially present in the products are prohibited in cosmetic products. Inorganic colorants may contain heavy metals, which besides the already mentioned lead, for instance could be antimony, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, mercury, selenium, strontium lactate, -nitrate and –polycarboxylate, tellur, thallium and zirconium.
The toxic effects of lead to humans are well studied. The recognition that children are especially sensitive to very low levels of lead has caused several studies in situations where children could be exposed to lead (e.g. Mojdehi and Gurtner 1996, Rahbar et al. 2002, Shaltout et al. 1981). Chronic exposure to lead that could result in as low blood lead levels as e.g. 10 µg/dl blood or less may cause mental deterioration, learning disabilities or behavioural abnormalities in children (Vaishnav 2001).
It has been observed that while adults absorb approx. 11% of the lead that reaches the stomach-intestine system it is 30 to 75% for children. By exposure via inhalation approx. 50% is absorbed while less than 1% of lead is absorbed by skin contact (Farley 1998).
In 1992, WHO has set a provisional tolerable weekly intake value (PTWI) of lead to 25 µg/kg body weight for both children and adults. The PTWI value was previously 50 µg/kg bodyweight for adults but was reduced based on the desire to reduce the lead load to unborn children.
In USA, kohl is not allowed as cosmetic. In USA, kohl is defined as colour additive and not allowed to be used in cosmetics (FDA 1996, 2001). However, it is noted that products may use the name kohl without containing kohl and FDA recommends the consumer carefully to check the ingredients list (FDA 2001).
Some funny things that are not very funny,but true!
In the west we call people who make a jigsaw puzzle the creator of a jigsaw puzzle,in islam they call them martyrs.
A jihadist gets on a bus and has 50kg of explosives (not including the fertilizer in his pants)the bus starts moving how far does it get before the bus explodes? One click.
You,myself and a jihadist walks into a bar.......
Speaking of fertilizer in a jihadists pants,how many jihadists do you think saved up thier "fertilizer" and how long do you think it took them to realize it was the wrong type of "fertilizer"?(and man are they full of it)
How long does it take a group of jihadists to change a light bulb?However long it takes to conquer the neighboring country.(or how ever long it takes to murder the nearest budhist or christian or jew next to them and "confiscate" thier house)
Which flag are the muslims most devoted to? I believe it's the American flag,thats the one i see burning the most.
What can you do to assure your name stays out of the newspaper no matter how vicious your crime? Chnage your name to muslim,jihadist,islam.You can also incite hate and murder this also works well.
What does CAIR and the NAACP have in common?Neither use lubricant when they shove it...and the act is so cold and one sided that you get the feeling your being raped.
What does islam and politicians have in common? Uh everything from my point of view,which is bent over and looking back.
I could do this all night,thats what the muslims said when they beheaded 600-900 jews at quarsh (sp)(and they did it all night)
This wasn't exactly meant to be funny,just therapeutic.It's all true isn't it?
We might add that ISLAM is hazardous to one's health all by itself!
How healthy could people like Muhammad be, after all, when they wrote of (and believed) in talking trees and talking rocks??? Believing in talking trees and talking rocks is pretty demented stuff,,,
Great reasons to promote acceptance of the burkha and niqab, outside of places of business (theft) and airports (terrorism), etc., of course. Let them be a vitamin deficient, bowed back, stunted rachitic population, if that is what they choose. Hear, hear, for freedom of choice!!
They'll all overdosing on Vitamin K.
The Killer Koran.
Side-effects include:
irritability, loss of sense of humor, desire to destroy things, fear of dogs and pigs, contempt for women (even if you are one), irrational urge to burn things, explosive temper (sometimes literally), uncontrollable beard growth (sometimes henna), impulse to put women in bags, delusions of grandeur (thinking that your "people" invented and discovered everything, from parachutes to the New World), inability to define simple words (like "honor" or "peace"), and the morbid worship of a dead pedophile.
Vitamin D ain't got nothin' on K.
Many rich Saudic home have women courtyard where stranger where not allow to enter call Haren, haren have nothing to do with sex or sexual activily it was the arabic word for forbitten to stranger to enter unless allow by the household to enter, how many of you will allow than total stranger to enter your bedroom or than man enter the lady room. Since it was than open courtyard they where more free to wear less clothes and get more sunlight. Now day they drink enrich milk and other enrich food to get vitman D.
Oh! So "harem" or "haren" = "women's prison." Got it. And "now day" these prisons don't even have a yard.
Since biology was never my strong point, here's a something else that you'll find amusing.
Just when you thought that the Muslimahs among us had found a compromise between wearing a burqa and wearing a bikini under the guise of a 'burqini' (which is nothing more than a full body swimsuit that athletic swimmers sometimes wear), in come the Mohammedan scholars (and I use the term loosely) to rain in on this beach parade.
Well, you Muslimahs, aren't you some party animals ;-)
"So not only is Islam poisonous to the logical humanitarian brain it is also bad for your body and health. It should be banned now as a HEALTH RISK."
Yes, and while they are at it, they should ban the cigarettes and alcohol too, as a HEALTH RISK! :D
Come on now. Let's not get carried away here.
Posted by: ThinkForYourself [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 28, 2007 6:16 PM
So you dont understand SARCASM 'TFY' thought not it requires an intelligent mind to perform it and recognise it.
Haren isnot a pirson for woman would you like to have than strange man walk into your bedroom unwant while you are in your bras and undie do you. If was wild western european fanstay of wild sexual orgery taken place in a haren that led to this falsehood. All moslim and Christian and jewish household in the middle east have haren where the women can reflax from the dress code of mostest abit which inclure the woman private bedroom. European men have out of control sexual fantasy.
Get a clue, Abdul. We've got real men, locks, guns, and dogs (yes, dogs) that stop Mohammedans like you from "walking into our bedrooms" because we're the daring kind of uncovered meat that go the drugstore without a mahram.
Who's out of control here? Muslim men who turn into frothing baboons when they see a woman's hair? Or Western men who can actually deal with a woman on a human basis? You disgust me, trying to imprison women because you choose not to control yourself -- but that's to be expected, considering your prophet was a serial rapist and child molester.
/spit
/bring it on, eunuch
"Conservative Muslim dress codes ?..."
....Muslims have dress codes?....OH, you can wear the black burka (thin material for very hot weather) or you can wear the black burka with heavy material (for colder weather)....
...the dress code rule...wear the black burka or die b****......
...Islam is for losers...
Ah, what's a few cases of rickets ?
Don't forget, "after 7 long years of arduous work, Iranian scientists here on Saturday introduced a herbal medicine which cures Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)".
Could be made the case that muslim parents forcing or permitting their children to wear burka and nikab and cover all theit skin are mistreating them?
This could be a legal justification to take the children from them and give them to leftist / statalist care.
Who cares? Should I cry crocodile tears for the self-imposed ill health of Moslems? The fewer of them the better, as everyone knows (whether they admit it or not).
Ah, DefenderofIslam - I see that spelling, punctuation & grammar aren't your strong suit.
Anyway, your first post, with 'Now day they drink enrich milk and other enrich food to get vitman D.' immediately reminded me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5AGuARB0w
(The spaghetti-eating burkha babes.)
I suppose they do use straws for their milk?
“Burkinis not good good enough” sez Muslim Weekly
‘Pleasing Allah more important'
’http://www.themuslimweekly.com/fullstoryview.aspx?NewsID=BDA4ED16AF356C099BF87D35&MENUID=REFLECTION&DESCRIPTION=Reflections
Ah, what's a few cases of rickets ?
Don't forget, "after 7 long years of arduous work, Iranian scientists here on Saturday introduced a herbal medicine which cures Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)".
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at June 29, 2007 7:07 AM
Why would Iranian scientists be concerned with AIDS? I thought that was only a problem for corrupt western societies.
/sarcasm
Hey Paul
"...would you like to have than strange man walk into your bedroom unwant while you are in your bras and undie do you."
Posted by: DefenderofIslam
...did you ever hear of locking your doors... or if you encounter an intruder--you just kill him on the spot....
...Oh I forget...Women have no such rights in Islam....
Islam is for losers.....
"This does not prove the same behavor will be found in humans but the rats brain is set up close enough to the humans to furthur research into the subject. In rats its proven. Sunlight deprived mothers lead to "crazy offspring" when some kind of inducing factor is added like the psychosis inducing drugs in this study."
Akshullllyyyyy....
There is evidence that this happens in humans. I read a study in the last few years documenting that there is a higher schiz rate by birthdate. People in temperate climates, whose mothers' pregnancies overlapped primarily with wintertime had higher rates. Lack of vitamin D was the researchers' proposed culprit.
It isn't just rats. Even the slight seasonal changes have a noticible statistical effect; and vitamin D, I believe, has some carry over effect from one month to the next. So, just imagine an entire adulthood away from the sun!
It would have really interesting effects on religious fanaticism, which IIRC has also been scientifically correlated with mental tendencies toward psychotic mental illness. Poor sick kiddies, their own flesh and blood! And all from men being to lazy to control their sexual urges.. whoddathunk.
The most of them will probably just go on supplements, though, if they hear about this. They should take this as an example, and consider what myriad other perverse injuries they are inflicting on themselves by following a master at war with Reason.
This problem becomes compounded here in the west because the upper lattitudes have a shorter and lower arc of the Sun which causes a serious issue in the winter .
It was about 60 years ago that Canada made it the Law for bread to be Vitamin "D" enriched merely from the risk of shorter periods of sunlight and thick clothes during the winter , another problem is the Kidneys reaction for a Vit-D reduction and the new ability for people in the North to eat bananas in the winter.
Yes , bananas , it's the potassium content that triggers the body to assume it is in a tropical zone and the Kidneys slow down the making of Vitamin D to supplement the low supply.
Humans and semians can't store Vitamin C and this was proven by the scurvy in the British Navy which later on stopped to load up on Limes and gave them the title Limeys .
Just wait until rescue workers start being sued for touching female muslims in burkas, but also get sued for not rescuing a muslim in a Burka.
It's the Quran stupid!
Ah, what's a few cases of rickets ?
Don't forget, "after 7 long years of arduous work, Iranian scientists here on Saturday introduced a herbal medicine which cures Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)".
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi
Haven't you figured out what the cure is yet Imnodhimmi?
It's more islam which means you just disappear.No more aids problem.
Painford2k take away childern from a religish befied you are bigot again due to Islamistprobes isnot legal in america and never will be legal the only draft doger from WWI who got 99 year in pirson was free in the 1930's was adime by many america for stricking to his Jework witron who donot believe in fight wars of any kind for any reason was admire by many america general who never believe in the draft at all.
The girls arenit force to wear the headscraf and you racist bigot want to forceful stop then from wearing it because you donot like it be honest your prejury committing christian.
This is a really old story the Australian governments have been warning about this for years.
http://www.office-for-children.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/16417/dhs_vit-D_dr_christine_rodda.pdf
I agree that the children from severe vitamin D decificient mothers run a higher risk of mental illness
They just figured that out? I was thinking of wearing one since they are everywhere-the men who think such thoughts, and I do not want their provert minds knowing or looking at me. -then they would, can't win for loosing...back to the chalk board.. bullwinkle...jk ee..umm..
Vitamin D deficiency is also a cause of infertility. Inuit women were infertile for about half a year from lack of sunlight. It was kind of a natural form of birth control.
This could be a good thing in a way...
Tyical Australia bias against moslim women willnot chamge they religious practice. Instead they would be better off not attacking their religious practice
but dealing with then taken vit D pills.