Posts Tagged ‘sun’

by Jessica Sanders

While some foods provide small amounts of Vitamin D—milk, cod liver oil, and egg yolk, to name a few—the sun is the best method for getting your daily dose of the sunshine vitamin.

“Your body is designed to get the vitamin D it needs by producing it when your bare skin is exposed to sunlight,” according to the VitaminDCouncil.org.

When exposed to sunlight, a large amount of Vitamin D3 is created. Vitamin D3 is the supplement …

By Jessica Sanders

Vitamin D is a necessary nutrient for your healthy body and essential for life.

It’s needed to regulate calcium and phosphorous by helping the intestines absorb nutrients.(Phosphorous, second to calcium, is the most abundant mineral in your body and is responsible for how you store and use energy, as well as grow and repair new cells.)
It plays a significant role in bone strength and structure. As you can imagine, being deficient in this important vitamin is…

 

Why Is Sunny Vitamin D So Important?

I am absolutely in love with vitamin D!  This amazing vitamin makes me happy… literally.  Like many of you, I used to struggle through the winter, battling depression and fatigue.  I had all the symptoms of SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) and couldn’t wait until the first signs of spring.  It was as if I bloomed into a new person when warm weather returned.

Vitamin D Deficiency

What I didn’t …

By Bob Condor

For 15 years as a health columnist for two major newspapers I have talked to hundreds of scientists about their research on dietary supplements. I make it a point to always ask the same question during our conversation: Do you take this stuff yourself?

In a June 10 story about vitamin D deficiency in the Los Angeles Times, reporter Thomas H. Maugh II notes that “most researchers in the field now take 1,500 IUs [international units] per …