Spring, sun, vitamin D and health

Tweet

I just read that having enough vitamin D helps a lot to avoid colon cancer. I quote: "The resulting cStudy participants with high vitamin D levels had 43 percent fewer digestive-tract cancers, 29 percent fewer cancer deaths, and 17 percent fewer cancers overall." Sun is a good way to get your daily vitamins and you don´t have to get skin cancer while doing it. Put on a sun screen and go for a small talk immediatly in the morning or in the afternoon, when the sun is not so hard on you. That will be enough and you won´t have to recurr to suplements. Anyway, many foods have part of what you need as your daily allowance. But that usually is not enough. One glass of milk has 300 IU of vitamin D (aprox). What we need is between 1000 to 2000 IU (the highest levels are for grown ups. Do you take care of having the right amount of vitamin D? How do you do it? Did you know that some countries where there´s little sun use ultraviolet rays at schools? Share your experiences!