Sunday, September 30, 2012

Cloudy days are bad for our health


It is common to hear that a constantly exposure to the sunlight is dangerous for our health. What if I told you that scientists have discovered that one reason of lacking vitamin D in our body is because we don’t spend the necessary time under the sun? Surprising? Well, it is true.
The Vitamin D, or so-called sunshine vitamin, is a very important nutrient which our body produces in abundance when we exposed our skin to the sun’s rays. The importance of this vitamin is continually growing because of the several benefits that it can bring to our health, such as preventing us from cancer, and multiple sclerosis.
Nowadays, people try to avoid sunshine covering their bodies, or even worse, staying at home. This strange and modern disease is more and more frequent in children and in teenagers, why? Unlike many years ago, children don’t go out from their houses to play outside; now, they prefer to stay playing video games or using the computer. These situations are leading that many people start to suffer from diseases caused by the vitamin-D deficiency.
The sun’s rays could be very aggressive with our body, but the absence of these is also an imminent problem for our health. Are we willing of having serious diseases instead of going out and enjoy the sun and its benefits? It is time to think about it.

2 comments:

  1. Glad you posted about this topic, because it something we are not always aware of. When I was pregnant in Australia doctors asked me to keep a record of the number of hours/minutes I was exposed to direct sunlight. Why? because given my Caribbean background, my foreseeable behavior of being indoors to be warmth and because of the type of work I was doing I was quite prone to be vitamin D- deficient. I never thought of that, but after testing, I had to go through the trouble of having vitamin D tablets, something I could have avoided just by simply getting some direct sunlight a few minutes a day...

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    1. Miss, thank you for sharing this excelent example about this topic. When I first read about it, it appeared to be a very interesting and unknown theme; that is why I wanted to write about it. And now, reading about your experience, I know that could happen to any of us, and that is a very common issue in our health.

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