Posts Tagged ‘Skin’

Learn why vitamin D is the ‘sunshine vitamin’

Thursday, August 5th, 2010
I am one of those people that go to the beach, lather up with sunscreen, wear a hat, wear sunglasses and sit in the shade.

That however was not always the case. When I was much younger, I would rub baby oil and iodine all over my body and bake for hours in the sun.
Why? Well of course because all my friends did the same thing. I did not like to do it then and certainly would never do that now.
I guess you could say we have come a long way in learning what all that over exposure to the sun can cause.

But is 10 minutes a day exposure to the sun with no sunscreen a bad thing or a good thing?

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