Vitamin D and sunlight exposure

Vitamin D is a highly essential vitamin for the health of our bones and teeth. Most people, especially women suffer from vitamin D insufficiency or even deficiency and don’t even realize it. Sunlight is the best source of vitamin D and its importance cannot be stressed enough. Just fifteen to twenty minutes a day spent in the sun are enough to keep the body’s levels of vitamin D up.
Benefits of vitamin D:
Vitamin D has been linked with preventing many types of cancers. Not only is it essential for the health of our bones and teeth, but it can actually fight cancers, heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis (painful inflammation of the joints), multiple sclerosis and even type 1 diabetes. Vitamin D is essential for calcium absorption from the gut. Its deficiency causes rickets in children and painful bone disease called Osteomalacia in adults.
Benefits of Sunlight:
Sunlight has been used for its healing powers by man since the dawn of time. These days too much sun exposure has been linked with malignant skin cancers, especially in light skinned people. This is also a fact, but limited exposure is very good for health and for such cancers to develop, there have to be many predisposing factors like familial history, pigmentation, unhealthy habits like smoking and drinking and over excessive exposure to the sun. The sun plays a vital role in the manufacture of vitamin D in our body, and limited exposure is essential for our health. You can partake in a healthy activity like gardening, or take a ten minute stroll down the street in the sun to get ample amount of sunlight that you need to manufacture vitamin D.