Sunshine is Good For You

This article on Vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, is pretty good stuff. Lots of interesting tidbits, such as:

In fact, Dr. Holick and others have demonstrated that osteomalacia is preventable and treatable using vitamin D. Osteoporosis, another bone disease, is also related to lack of vitamin D.

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Optimal vitamin D serum blood levels, attained through sunlight or supplementation, dramatically reduce the risk of many diseases other than bone maladies. Many of the most serious are ameliorated by an astonishing 50 to 85 percent. These diseases include cancers, from breast and colon to deadly melanoma skin cancers.

It’s a good summary article about the benefits of Sun exposure.

While you’re at it, you can find more, here.