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 …