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sunshine By Donna Taylor
We all know that to live a healthy lifestyle we need to get the right balance of vitamins and minerals, but when it comes to vitamin D, there's a lot of discussion over how much a person needs and more importantly how to generate it.
"According to recent medical research we generally don't get enough vitamin D," says Oonagh McNulty or
ProSalonDirect.com. "This can be attributed to our modern lifestyles, which involve far longer periods spent inside, shaded from the sun, than did the lives of our ancestors."
Often nicknamed 'the sunshine vitamin', one of the most common ways to generate vitamin D is from the sunshine. However, sun exposure and the use of tanning beds is constantly criticised in the media, often stating that tanning, in particular sunbed tanning, can pose a significant cancer risk. According to Dr Des Fernandes, founder of Environ Skin Care, this has left society at risk of becoming sun phobic.
Gary Lipman, Chairman of The Sunbed Association, continues: "Over the last decade or so there has been a general
acceptance of the anti-tanning mantra 'there's no such thing as a healthy tan' and some of us have succumbed to the constant drip feed of skin cancer scare stories resulting in a decision to shun the sun."
It has become common practice to coat our bodies in the highest factor SPF possible when we're lucky enough to get a sunny day, however research has found that by trying to prevent skin cancer by staying out of the sun, we're actually not helping our bodies and a lack of vitamin D in the body could lead to a whole host of different cancers and illnesses.
"By shielding ourselves from the sun we don't get skin cancer, but we do increase the risk of getting other cancers," says Dr Des Fernandes.
Lorraine Peretta, head of nutrition at the International Institute of Anti-Ageing, and brand manager for advanced Nutrition Programme continues: "Of all the nutrients, vitamin D has been the recipient of the greatest scientific interest in recent years. Research has shown that insufficient vitamin D has been linked with almost every degenerative
disease including cancer, cardiovascular disease, inflammatory conditions, as well as colds and flu. In the past month, it has come to light that some children are exhibiting the signs of rickets as a result of vitamin D deficiency."
Gary adds: "A global wave of new research findings has achieved a growing consensus amongst medical and health authorities that a lack of exposure to regular sunshine or UVB irradiance will increase the risk of developing one or more of 24 cancers - including melanoma - as well as a number of other chronic and potentially fatal diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Type 1 Diabetes, Osteomalacia, Heart Disease and Schizophrenia."
However, this is not to say that a lack of vitamin D is the only cause of these illnesses and diseases, or that people who regularly take in vitamin D won't get them, but it does signify that vitamin D can affect the health of people in many different ways and therefore sun exposure should not be overlooked!
The realisation that vitamin D could help in decreasing the risk of cancer isn't a new idea either. "Vitamin D was first
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