Its Official A Dose of Winter Sun is Good for You

17th December 2010

Its official sun is what the doctor orders

Several leading health groups including Cancer Research, the National Osteoporosis Society and Multiple Sclerosis Society have all said that a dose of daily sun is good for you because the body needs to maintain Vitamin D levels.

Unfortunately in the UK even when the sun gets out it is generally too weak to do much good and as a consequence the British store of Vitamin D often falls below healthy levels which can lead to a risk of developing of diabetes, rickets in children, brittle bones in adults, heart disease and cancer.

Over the past few years the Sun has been seen as the enemy with the fear of skin cancer and whilst this remains the case the sun in the UK even in summer is only hot enough to produce Vitamin D between 10 and 4 and 10 minutes without any screening is good for you.

So the choice or Britons is pretty clear either take pills or have a week away to recharge your bodies batteries. To be honest not only is the sun vital in a physical sense to build up a store of Vitamin D it is also a boost to your mental well being.

SAD syndrome is where people feel depressed by the short miserable days experienced in winter and have developed special lamps to fill the room with sunlight to increase the feeling of well being.