Time in the Sun: How Much Is Needed for Vitamin D?

This Article is Misleading

This article was either written by someone not from this planet or written by someone who never goes outside. To suggest that we aren't getting enough Vitamin D because at certain times of the year we can not burn is totally misleading. People get sunburnt in the winter all the time. This is why skiers have to wear sunscreen. Another is the suggestion that no one gets sunburnt in the car is ridiculous. Of course UV rays pass through glass. My left hand is often burnt because of driving in the sun. When driving through Arizona in May my fiance who is from a tropical climate and I had to wear maps on our laps or the sun would burn our thighs while driving in the car. Most of this article is hogwash. Everyone can get vitamin D in the winter. The problem is during the winter it is mostly cloudy and too cold outside. However on a still day with blue skies in February you can still get plenty of sun if you are brave enough to bring a chair out into the snow, and put your big coat on the chair and then take your coat off and bare all from the waist up. I have gotten sunburnt this way and and as long as there is no breeze or clouds the sun is hot and toasty. I do this often in the winter as I love my Vit D and the way the sun relaxes you. Think about it. Tibetan monks are tan and brown and they live in the snowy Himalayas.

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Sun elevation same in fall and winter

A very interesting and helpful article. I see a frequent error (I believe it's an error) in many of these discussions about the sun as a source of vitamin D. The sun is just as low in the sky one week before the first day of winter as it is one week after winter starts. The noontime elevation will be the same for any given number of days before as after the first day of winter. So, at any given latitude, there may be a period beginning sometime in fall and extending an equal number of days into winter, during which the sun will be so low that the length of sunlight's path through the atmosphere will cause loss of essentially all of the relevant UV rays that the body needs to make vitamin D. But if, in your latitude, there is a period in early fall when the sun is still high enough to do the job, then there will also be a time in late winter when the same will apply. Ski tanning, anyone?

Too much sun or too little spinach?

Is it really the sun? Or our plastic, acetate, fast food, air conditioned life style?

Our immune systems and our diets may be in need of something that public service advisories, and marketers for sun screen cannot provide.

How many more wild critters are getting melanoma these days. I haven't noticed that more eagles and falcons are crashing into buildings and mountain sides, due to cataracts caused by exposure to the sun.

Good article

Thanks for opening this very important topic, normal news dont give out all the real facts about vit. D and how important it is.

Increased skin cnacer rates are a function of 2 things

"Increased" skin cancer rates are a function of two reasons: more cosmetic dermatologists calling skin abnormalities skin cancer in order to pad their bill to Insurance companies and simply because more people are looking because of a carefully orchestrated Marketing campaign by the American Academy of Dermatologists.

Several of my friends have been to dermatologists lately to have moles and skin tags removed. Almost every one of them were told that they were going to be reported as skin cancer so that they would be covered by insurance. Also, if a person has two moles removed that is considered two cases of skin cancer.

Next, all those skin cancer vans and awareness campaigns were not around 5 years ago. The vans are not out there altruistically. They are there to artificially boost skin cancer rates to give more relevance to th AAD marketing campaign and send more people to dermatologists. Which is the job and goal of the AAD...

Think about it, based on the numbers the AAD is providing, the USA has 50% of the world's skin cancer cases. A statistical impossiblity.

This is one of the biggest marketing hoaxes of the decade if not the century.

Vitamin D & UV Exposure

If anyone has a question about the issue of Vitamin D & how to obtain it from UV light call a local tanning salon & ask to speak with someone there who has been certified by an industry approved education association. I own a tanning salon & honestly the benefits of Vitamin D from UV light (sunlight) is NOT new to the indoor tanning idustry

. I realize that there has been a huge fear placed upon the public about skin cancer & tanning beds. However, in moderation & within a controlled environment, tanning beds can be a very safe way to obtain Vitamin D along with several other benefits of sunlight. Vist www.tanningtruth.com for more information.

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thats that cool that staying in the sun is goo for you

Vitamin D and the Sun

Are you saying that because I have the starting of Osteopena at age 67 that 10 minutes of sun at noon everyday is better than taking Vitamin D1000? IF so, I would be better off with the actual sun because I get more than 1000 units of Vit. D.

10 minutes of sunlight exposure

it doesnt say anything about that like it wont say anything about how it is important for you ti get 10 minutes of sunlight exposure or anything like that