By- Jon Herring
Recent studies suggest that one of the most effective ways to protect yourself from auto-immune diseases and cancers (and also to treat them) is to maintain healthy levels of Vitamin D.
Aside from cod liver oil, there are few dietary sources with high levels of natural Vitamin D - and the synthetic form that is used to fortify milk, cereal, and orange juice does not function the same way in your body.
So... what is the best way to get your Vitamin D? Turns out, Grandma was right: Get out in the sun. Not only will an hour or so of sunshine every day help your body fight the ravages of degenerative disease, it will also help you defeat moodiness and even depression.
The Best Way to Get Your Vitamin D
The Best Way to Get Your Vitamin D
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The Best Way to Get Your Vitamin D
we take supplements of VITAMIN D, by SOLGAR---1000 IU. Sunshine & Dark leafy green veggies? :-6
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chonsigirl
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There is nothing nicer then getting vitamins the fun way-we had a lovely field trip to the zoo yesterday and being in the sun for the majority of the day was delightful. I wore my sunblock, so I could enjoy all those vitamins-plus the delicious warmth of the rays and the freedom of being outside the classroom.
The Best Way to Get Your Vitamin D
Thanks for the info.....then somebody else tells us that going out in the sun causes skin cancer, d`oh!
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tedhutchinson
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john8pies wrote: Thanks for the info.....then somebody else tells us that going out in the sun causes skin cancer, d`oh!First you should be aware that the further from the Equator you live the less easy it becomes to obtain Vitamin D from the sun IN WINTER.
There is a free online calculator Duration of Vitamin D Synthesis in Human Skin HERE
If you look for google earth or multimap they should be able to tell you your latitude and longitude.
The next point is that people with a DARK or BLACK skin will need to be outside for 6 to 10 times longer to obtain the same amount of Vitamin D so they are much more likely to suffer from Vitamin D deficiency than white skinned people if they live above latitude 42n Boston USA where much research has been done has discovered the 50% of fracture victims are Vitamin D deficient in winter so it isn't surprising that the figure rises to 100% of elderly fracture victims in Edinburgh Scotland Latitude 56n
There is a lot more information The Vitamin D Council here which will put those whose minds are already worrying about the dangers of skin cancer from sun exposure which will put that worry into perspective.
There is a free online calculator Duration of Vitamin D Synthesis in Human Skin HERE
If you look for google earth or multimap they should be able to tell you your latitude and longitude.
The next point is that people with a DARK or BLACK skin will need to be outside for 6 to 10 times longer to obtain the same amount of Vitamin D so they are much more likely to suffer from Vitamin D deficiency than white skinned people if they live above latitude 42n Boston USA where much research has been done has discovered the 50% of fracture victims are Vitamin D deficient in winter so it isn't surprising that the figure rises to 100% of elderly fracture victims in Edinburgh Scotland Latitude 56n
There is a lot more information The Vitamin D Council here which will put those whose minds are already worrying about the dangers of skin cancer from sun exposure which will put that worry into perspective.
The Best Way to Get Your Vitamin D
TedH is right (welcome to FG!!).
The reverse to this is also true... that a few minutes of sunshine on
bare skin in summer is all you need, not the hours that will cause
a burn.
Happy Vitamin D'ing, everybody!!
:-6
The reverse to this is also true... that a few minutes of sunshine on
bare skin in summer is all you need, not the hours that will cause
a burn.
Happy Vitamin D'ing, everybody!!
:-6
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tedhutchinson
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That is true If you have white skin then you just need to get 10minutes or so front and back to produce sufficient 10-12000iu to last several days. Once the skin has started to redden the synthesis stops, so longer than 30 minutes will not generate any more.
Your body uses between 3000 and 5000iu daily so you can see that those people who are relying on the current official RDA figures of 400iu or 600iu daily without going outside or consuming Cod Liver Oil or eating liver will be gradually becoming deficient.
Your body uses between 3000 and 5000iu daily so you can see that those people who are relying on the current official RDA figures of 400iu or 600iu daily without going outside or consuming Cod Liver Oil or eating liver will be gradually becoming deficient.
The Best Way to Get Your Vitamin D
john8pies wrote: Thanks for the info.....then somebody else tells us that going out in the sun causes skin cancer, d`oh!
Yeah, but truthfully, I'd rather die of skin cancer looking back over a life of playing in the sun, than die like a cold white fish in a fishbowl, never knowing the pleasures of the outdoors.
I keep thinking that our ancestors had it right all along, their life expectancy was nothing like ours, death was everywhere....you could fall off a horse, you could die in a duel, you could get an infection. But were they scared to live?
Not a bit. They lived everyday as if it were the last and fear never entered their minds.
Yeah, but truthfully, I'd rather die of skin cancer looking back over a life of playing in the sun, than die like a cold white fish in a fishbowl, never knowing the pleasures of the outdoors.
I keep thinking that our ancestors had it right all along, their life expectancy was nothing like ours, death was everywhere....you could fall off a horse, you could die in a duel, you could get an infection. But were they scared to live?
Not a bit. They lived everyday as if it were the last and fear never entered their minds.
All the world's a stage and the men and women merely players...Shakespeare
The Best Way to Get Your Vitamin D
My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.
My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter and I used to eat it raw sometimes too, our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag not in icepack coolers, but I can't remember getting ecoli?
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.
We all took gym, not PE ... and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training ath letic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries, but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now. Flunking gym was not an option. Even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.
Every year, someone taught the whole school a lesson [and provided comic relief] by running in the halls with leather soles on linoleum tile and hitting the wet spot. How much better off would we be today if we only knew we could have sued the school system.
Speaking of school, we all said the Pledge of Allegiance and sang the National Anthem and getting detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
We must have had horribly damaged psyches. I can't understand it.
Schools didn't offer 14 year olds an abortion or condoms (we wouldn't have known what either was anyway) but they did give us a couple of baby aspirin and cough syrup if we started getting the sniffles.
What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.
I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Stations, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations. I must be repressing that memory as I try to rationalize through the denial of the dangers could have befallen us as we trekked off each day about a half mile down the road to some guy's vacant lot, built forts out of branches and pieces of plywood, made trails, and fought over who got to be the Lone Ranger. What was that property owner thinking, letting us play on that lot? He should have been locked up for not putting up a fence around the property, complete with a self-closing gate and an infrared intruder alarm.
Oh yeah . and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
We played king of the hill on piles of gravel left on vacant
construction sites and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48 cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids called it "monkey blood" and liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked (physical abuse) here too and then we got butt spanked again when we got home.
Mom invited the door to door salesman inside for coffee, kids choked down the dust from the gravel driveway while playing with Tonka trucks (Remember why Tonka trucks were made tough, it wasn't so that they could take the rough Berber in the family room), and Dad drove a car with leaded gas.
Our music had to be left inside when we went out to play, and I am sure that I nearly exhausted my imagination a couple of times when we went on two week vacations. I should probably sue the folks now for the danger they put us in when we all slept in campgrounds in the family tent.
Summers were spent behind the push lawn mower and I didn't even know that m owers came with motors until I was 13, and we got one without an automatic blade-stop and it did not have powered wheels. How sick were my parents?
Of course my parents weren't the only psychos. I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.
To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that we needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes?
We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?
Think about it before you laugh, this is not a joke, it's the way it was in the good old days...
LOVE AND HAPPINESS TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA.
Sincerely,
Jonathan St. Ives
Lead Teacher
Transition Academy
My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter and I used to eat it raw sometimes too, our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag not in icepack coolers, but I can't remember getting ecoli?
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.
We all took gym, not PE ... and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training ath letic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries, but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now. Flunking gym was not an option. Even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.
Every year, someone taught the whole school a lesson [and provided comic relief] by running in the halls with leather soles on linoleum tile and hitting the wet spot. How much better off would we be today if we only knew we could have sued the school system.
Speaking of school, we all said the Pledge of Allegiance and sang the National Anthem and getting detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
We must have had horribly damaged psyches. I can't understand it.
Schools didn't offer 14 year olds an abortion or condoms (we wouldn't have known what either was anyway) but they did give us a couple of baby aspirin and cough syrup if we started getting the sniffles.
What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.
I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Stations, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations. I must be repressing that memory as I try to rationalize through the denial of the dangers could have befallen us as we trekked off each day about a half mile down the road to some guy's vacant lot, built forts out of branches and pieces of plywood, made trails, and fought over who got to be the Lone Ranger. What was that property owner thinking, letting us play on that lot? He should have been locked up for not putting up a fence around the property, complete with a self-closing gate and an infrared intruder alarm.
Oh yeah . and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
We played king of the hill on piles of gravel left on vacant
construction sites and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48 cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids called it "monkey blood" and liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked (physical abuse) here too and then we got butt spanked again when we got home.
Mom invited the door to door salesman inside for coffee, kids choked down the dust from the gravel driveway while playing with Tonka trucks (Remember why Tonka trucks were made tough, it wasn't so that they could take the rough Berber in the family room), and Dad drove a car with leaded gas.
Our music had to be left inside when we went out to play, and I am sure that I nearly exhausted my imagination a couple of times when we went on two week vacations. I should probably sue the folks now for the danger they put us in when we all slept in campgrounds in the family tent.
Summers were spent behind the push lawn mower and I didn't even know that m owers came with motors until I was 13, and we got one without an automatic blade-stop and it did not have powered wheels. How sick were my parents?
Of course my parents weren't the only psychos. I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.
To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that we needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes?
We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?
Think about it before you laugh, this is not a joke, it's the way it was in the good old days...
LOVE AND HAPPINESS TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA.
Sincerely,
Jonathan St. Ives
Lead Teacher
Transition Academy
All the world's a stage and the men and women merely players...Shakespeare
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tedhutchinson
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The perception of risk regarding Melanoma and other cancers is however at the center of this discussion and those who would like to understand more about this can find it discussed in greater detail in the free PDF file at SUNLIGHT ROBBERY while this applies more particularly to the UK it's also interesting for those who live in north of BOSTON USA.
But the fundamental point you have to understand is that for all practical purposes the risk of death from any kind of skin cancer caused by exposure to sunlight is negligible when compared with the high risk of other diseases of many different types which are caused, at least in part, by D deficiency.
But the fundamental point you have to understand is that for all practical purposes the risk of death from any kind of skin cancer caused by exposure to sunlight is negligible when compared with the high risk of other diseases of many different types which are caused, at least in part, by D deficiency.
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tedhutchinson
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chonsigirl wrote: There is nothing nicer then getting vitamins the fun way-we had a lovely field trip to the zoo yesterday and being in the sun for the majority of the day was delightful. I wore my sunblock, so I could enjoy all those vitamins-plus the delicious warmth of the rays and the freedom of being outside the classroom.The point about sunblock is that it stops the sun from affecting the skin, both adversly and beneficially. It is only direct exposure of the skin to sunlight, without sunblock, makeup, glass, intervening that will enable synthesis.
This is why it is important to stress that the time is limited to about 10minutes exposure on front and back or 20 to 30 minutes in total.
Take every opportunity to sunbathe wearing as few clothes as possible for up to half an hour or more per day depending on skin type, previous exposure and time of day. But take care – sensitive skin may burn after only a few minutes. Be ready to cover up or seek the shade to avoid baking or burning. Encourage children to undress in the sun but take care that they do not burn.
This is why it is important to stress that the time is limited to about 10minutes exposure on front and back or 20 to 30 minutes in total.
Take every opportunity to sunbathe wearing as few clothes as possible for up to half an hour or more per day depending on skin type, previous exposure and time of day. But take care – sensitive skin may burn after only a few minutes. Be ready to cover up or seek the shade to avoid baking or burning. Encourage children to undress in the sun but take care that they do not burn.