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How to get natural Vitamin D in the winter?
I feel that many Americans and Europeans lack Vitamin D due to hiding from the cold. Also, it is impossible, I heard, for the essential rays to be received in certain parts of the country in the winter, specifically north of Atlanta in America.
Is this true? So, even if I go outside for 40 mins a day in the winter it will be useless?
September 1st, 2011 - 02:07
Yes, that’s true. Going outside won’t be useless, but even in the summer, you only get about 400 IU of Vitamin D from going outside. That may not be enough. There are also foods that provide some Vitamin D as well like salmon (or any fatty fish) and some plants too.
You can find a natural supplementation, just make sure it’s D3 and not D2. This page says more about that: http://www.natural-remedies-and-you.com/benefits-of-vitamin-d.html (It’s not a sales page for supplements – info only, promise.)
Hope that helps!
September 1st, 2011 - 02:07
You only need to bare your forearms to the sun for 20 minutes a day and your D is topped up. I know we don’t get sun everyday so if you think you don’t get enough,take a D supplement. My partner’s body doesn’t absorb vitamin D and has been prescribed Calceos…………
September 1st, 2011 - 02:07
"During winter, it is important to take advantage with the little sunshine you have by spending outdoors bearing your forearms and face and do this without putting sunscreen. However, it would not be much of a problem since a single serving of fatty fish or vitamin D fortified drinks are often enough for your recommended intake of vitamin D.
On a different note, patients lacking with vitamin D are at risk of osteoporosis which may be treated with bisphosphonate drug Fosamax. However, this drug has been known to cause adverse events including a thigh bone fracture. Consequently, some of the harmed individuals are not contending for a lawsuit with a Fosamax Fracture lawyer." http://www.fosamaxfemurfracturelawsuit.com