For years I've been taking about the benefits of proper exposure to natural sunlight, and warning about the dangers of having low Vitamin D levels in your body. Now here comes a report that shows ANOTHER side effect of low Vitamin D.
Again... get outside, get some sun. Avoid sunscreens. Use your head and don't get burned, but get some natural sunlight on your body. It's how you body makes Vitamin D, and it's critically important to your health.
Modern merchandising has demonized sunlight, something that we lived with and under for a million years, then in the last 20 grew to fear the sun. Did you know that the incidence of skin cancer is higher among factory workers than it is in construction workers? Yep, several times higher.
Here's that new
report:
http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/635427.html
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