Health tips: Did you know shocking facts about Vitamin-D.

 

credit: third party image referenceShocking Facts about Vitamin-D.
Vitamin D prevents Osteoporosis, be Depression, Prostate Cancer, Breast Cancer and even effects - Diabetes & Obesity.
Vitamin D is perhaps the single most *Under-rated nutrient* in the world of nutrition. 
That's probably because it's free....
Your body makes it when sunlight touches your skin !!
Drug companies can't sell you sunlight, so there's no promotion of its health benefits..
The truth is, most people don't know the real story on *vitamin D and health.
1. Vitamin D is *produced by your skin* in response to exposure to ultraviolet radiation *from natural sunlight*. 
2. The healing rays of natural sunlight (that generate vitamin D in your skin) *cannot penetrate glass*. So you don't generate vitamin D when sitting in your car or home. 
3. It is nearly impossible to get adequate amounts of vitamin D from your diet. *Sunlight exposure is the only reliable way* to generate vitamin D in your own body. 

credit: third party image reference4. A person would have to drink *ten tall glasses* of vitamin D fortified milk each day just to get minimum levels of vitamin D into their diet. 
5. The further you live from the equator, the longer exposure you need to the sun in order to generate vitamin D. Canada, the UK and most U.S. States are far from the equator. 
6. People with dark skin pigmentation may need 20 - 30 times as much exposure to sunlight as fair-skinned people to generate the same amount of vitamin D. That's why prostate cancer is epidemic among black men -- it's a simple, but widespread, sunlight deficiency. 
7. Sufficient levels of vitamin D are *crucial for calcium absorption* in your intestines. Without sufficient vitamin D, your body cannot absorb calcium, rendering calcium supplements useless. 
8. Chronic vitamin D *deficiency cannot be reversed overnight:* It takes months of vitamin D supplementation and sunlight exposure to rebuil